[BruceAnderson]

Phone Box Of Yesteryear​

I remember these phone boxes when I was a school kid. It cost three pence to make a call, and they had a refund button to eject the coins if the call wasn’t connected.
The joke going around at the time was, if you were in trouble and needed a policeman, you just pressed the refund button, and out would come three coppers!

 

[Bullwinkle]

 

[Mummanew]

I recall turning the headset around and yelling into the earpiece and being heard at the other end without having to pay. I also remember my parents drumming into us that we should always have enough coins on us to make a call in an emergency. Ah those were the days

 

[Bullwinkle]

I recall turning the headset around and yelling into the earpiece and being heard at the other end without having to pay. I also remember my parents drumming into us that we should always have enough coins on us to make a call in an emergency. Ah those were the days

I also remember doing this

 

[Veggiepatch]

In the late 1960s, four of us were watching an old witch trying to make a call from one of those A-B button black phones. She fed numerous 5 cent pieces into it without success and ended up smashing the receiver.

The oldest of our group, Colleen, got a paddle pop stick and stuck it down the coin receptacle.

Viola!! Out came eight 5 cent pieces, enough for us to buy four chocolate paddle pops each!

What make it so unforgettable was that Colleen, 14 years old and wearing a super tight pair of lime coloured shorts, had literally pissed herself laughing.

We are still great friends to this day.

 

[Reet]

Telstra has made calls from public phone free now so then they have taken away the phones. If you don't have a mobile phone when you need it you are unable to make a call.