Historical marker on Hyde Park Avenue bears witness to a lost age

There are still some working pay phones around the city.

On a recent trip to Montreal, there were pay phones all over the place. And I found them very useful, since my cell phone doesn't work in Canada. I dug out my old calling card, and since Canadian pay phones don't have that 55 cent surcharge on calling card calls like American ones, calls only cost me 3 cents a minute.

...was the uniquely pungent smell of the mouthpiece. Obbviously from absorbing years of people's bad breath. It wasn't completely nauseating or anything, but it was a smell that was found no place else.

How did that fit in your pocket?

You will find an operatrional payphone and a bus station or train station or airport withj interstate service as the ITC has had a regulation mandating them and it is still on the books.

Making it a requirement for people to pay or their own personal telephone when they neither want nor need one, or a faciility need to pay for others' calls as a serviceor courtesy, especially when nobody may be working there at the time, is NOT right.

Never mind cases of lost or stolen phones.
I find having no alternative to the forced migration to private cell phone ownership, while convenient and normal to be unfair. But I'm an old fart used to the old ways.

Of course the telecoms have been raking it in for decades now and the amount of phone traffic has increased exponentially which means $$$$.

And we all trust the telecommunications industry to treat their users fairly, right?
They would NEVER be tempted to control of the FCC in order to gain power, now would they?