pay phone
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William Arnold drove 900 miles from his home in Cornwall, England, this summer to a windswept pay phone on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Back in Pennan, a trickle of people trekked down the steep, winding path from the hilltop to see if the pay phone from “Local Hero” was still working and maybe make a call or two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
I remember sad Bob Seger on a pay phone in a hallway talking to somebody — like, “I’m headed to Michigan, where I should be a god, but I’m opening for Bachman-Turner Overdrive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
I went to a pay phone and called a Chrysler expert I knew about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
So I walked down Main Street to the south end, where there was a pay phone in front of the lunch counter.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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