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A coin-operated public telephone also called a payphone, hangs on the wall outside Coden Grocery, Dec. 27, 2021, in Coden, Alabama. The first payphone was installed in 1889 in a bank in Hartford, Connecticut. Payphone calls were only a nickel until the 1950s when the price was increased to a dime. In the 1980s, payphones were standardized at a quarter. At their peak, there were 2.6 million payphones in the United States, but numbers began to decline in 2000, as cellular phones became more prevalent and companies like AT&T and Verizon left the payphone business. In 2018, only 100,000 payphones remained in the U.S. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
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A coin-operated public telephone also called a payphone, hangs on the wall outside Coden Grocery, Dec. 27, 2021, in Coden, Alabama. The first payphone was installed in 1889 in a bank in Hartford, Connecticut. Payphone calls were only a nickel until the 1950s when the price was increased to a dime. In the 1980s, payphones were standardized at a quarter. At their peak, there were 2.6 million payphones in the United States, but numbers began to decline in 2000, as cellular phones became more prevalent and companies like AT&T and Verizon left the payphone business. In 2018, only 100,000 payphones remained in the U.S. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)