Up until around the 2000 era....you could still find public phones situated around most all villages, towns and cities of Germany.
Today? They are almost non-existent. This group of six? It's in the shopping district of Frankfurt. You would insert your 'card' in and call off of it. I stood near this spot for about an hour....sipping coffee. No activity. I would imagine in an entire week....there's probably fewer than ten phone calls made off the six phones.
It's like the dinosaurs....it's dying off.
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I remember going just outside the front gate at the WAB and using the phone box to call back to the states every Sunday night in 1991.
Today in Las Vegas one can often see what used to be phone banks with out the phones near the convention centers inside the resorts. One harkens back to the days of business men making calls between convention sessions...
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