Telephone booths in Paphos

[memory man]

Do these booths exist anywhere in Paphos nowadays?

I remember 3 or 4 booths at the corner/traffic lights beside Kings Hotel
many years ago where my daughter regularly phoned her boyfriend,
when we were on holiday.

I was at these traffic lights today which jogged my memory.

* Not everyone has a mobile phone.

[Dominic]

The place I saw one was in Anadiou. No idea if it worked or not. It reminds me of how popular phone cards were at one point. Do people still collect them?

[Jim B]

There was one on the road where the Aloe Hotel is now located.

[Cappielow1]

I think there's one at the Keg and Barrel end of Bar St.
There certainly used to be, I recall using it on one occasion long ago.

[Maggie B]

Do these booths exist anywhere in Paphos nowadays?

I remember 3 or 4 booths at the corner/traffic lights beside Kings Hotel
many years ago where my daughter regularly phoned her boyfriend,
when we were on holiday.

I was at these traffic lights today which jogged my memory.

* Not everyone has a mobile phone.

I just love that question you have asked Brian. But would anybody know how or when to press A . . . .or B nowadays?

However, it's just dawned on me . . . . Yon may have been before your days.

I remember when our Son went to Aberdeen Uni and he got this new fangled mobile phone! We had to to top it up. . . Being the bank of mum and dad.

Nowadays, I would think my right arm was was CUT OFF if I didn't have my mobile around me!

Baggie M.

[Maggie B]

I also remember when you could go into an old fashioned telephone box, and TAP the number with your fingers into the booth. My Mum and Dads number was 4265 . . . . . . So, I always got through for free You were 'stuffed' if your home number had a NINE in it.

MB

[Dominic]

There used to be a whole culture centred around phone phreaking. A lot of it was to do with mimicing the sounds the phone sent down the wire to tell the network how many coins etc had been inserted.

[WHL]

Do these booths exist anywhere in Paphos nowadays?

I remember 3 or 4 booths at the corner/traffic lights beside Kings Hotel
many years ago where my daughter regularly phoned her boyfriend,
when we were on holiday.

I was at these traffic lights today which jogged my memory.

* Not everyone has a mobile phone.

I just love that question you have asked Brian. But would anybody know how or when to press A . . . .or B nowadays?

However, it's just dawned on me . . . . Yon may have been before your days.

I remember when our Son went to Aberdeen Uni and he got this new fangled mobile phone! We had to to top it up. . . Being the bank of mum and dad.

Nowadays, I would think my right arm was was CUT OFF if I didn't have my mobile around me!

Baggie M.

I remember as a kid, putting your four penny's in the phone, if someone answered you pressed A to get through, if no one answered you pressed B and got your penny's back, as kids we used dart into every telephone box we passed by, and press the B button, sometimes the person that used it previously would forget to get his penny's out, and Bingo we had money for sweets , Happy days.

[brengreen]

There used to be some by Ta Bania on the front. My daughter rang her now husband from them in 2005.

[trevnhil]

If there are still working ones about I wonder how they sanitize them between users

[Maggie B]

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I remember as a kid, putting your four penny's in the phone, if someone answered you pressed A to get through, if no one answered you pressed B and got your penny's back, as kids we used dart into every telephone box we passed by, and press the B button, sometimes the person that used it previously would forget to get his penny's out, and Bingo we had money for sweets , Happy days.
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Love it WHL. I wasn't that smart. I just rememember trying to tap the numbers into the analogue phones. I got so so good at it but, the nines were a complete bugger. (The speed was key) Very very occasionaly I got a call through but, I could count them on one hand. Again, thanks Brian for bringing this subject up.

Of course your initial question was hijacked. Apologies from me to you. X

MB

[71 Trans Am]

HIC
Mobile phones have been around longer than you think - Or have they ?

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