payphone

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payphone

A public telephone on the street or in a building lobby that accept coins or collect calls. As of 2020, there are an estimated 100,000 payphones in the U.S. with most of them in New York City. At the turn of the century, there were two million in the country.

An Israeli Payphone for International Calls

With instructions in Hebrew and English, this payphone on a Jerusalem street in 2013 accepted Euros and Shekels. Collect calls could be made to the U.S.

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To raise the funds they used their PWS&D coinboxes, weekly offerings, book sales, penny parades, bottle drives, luncheons after church, a read-a-thon, and a wishing well.