I’ve seen that in several 70s and 80s movies and I don’t buy it’s real. Wouldn’t the bar just have a payphone?
Even as recently as 2008, but it was a cordless phone and a dive bar that hadn’t changed much since the 80s
it was a cordless phone and a dive bar that hadn’t changed much since the 80s
I still have one of these
I’ve yet to find one with a working payphone in the last 5-10 years, but several with non-working payphones in little booths they never bothered to rip out
Yes. They would also give away matchbooks. That way if you got murdered, a hard boiled detective could look in your pockets and find a clue to your last whereabouts.
The implication being that everyone smokes so much, they go through one matchbook pretty quickly.
I think the reasoning is more that you pick it up at the bar to light a cigarette, drop it in your pocket, and then the next time you safely empty your pockets it’ll be gone. If you never make it to that last step, your gumshoe’s got a clue!
Yes, it’s true
And you know how I know?
Because I am that phone
If you’re that phone
Then who was phone?
The joke is that if your wife phoned the pub or bar, they would give varying answers depending on how much you paid.
There were songs written in the 1970s about this very scenario
