Paphos Life

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.

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?

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

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.

memory man wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:10 pm 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 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

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.

Maggie B wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:13 pm

memory man wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 3:10 pm 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.

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

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

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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

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

https://youtu.be/Y6a4T2tJaSU