I Bought and Installed a Payphone

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  • @radio645
    @radio645 หลายเดือนก่อน +2086

    It's not worth a damn unless there's a Yellow Page phonebook enclosed in a metal box hanging from a heavy metal cable!

    • @ineedstuff8286
      @ineedstuff8286 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      HArdcore laffing hahahah

    • @klaasj7808
      @klaasj7808 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

      i removed pages on several location when i didnt had a pen or paper with me and i had to remember the address. sorry to all those that because of me couldnt find a certain person

    • @zombiedearth
      @zombiedearth หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@klaasj7808we all did it 🤷‍♂️

    • @-Jakob-
      @-Jakob- หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      Back in the 80s, where I grew up in Germany, there was the whole phone directory of the whole city in every phone box, divided up into 4 books (A-H, I-P, Q-Z and one that had directories for the bigger villages of the county), in addition to the yellow pages book. So it was like a 60cm (24") row of hanging books to the right of the actual phone. You could have called the directory assistance right from the phone, but that used to be rather expensive.

    • @RealSnail3D
      @RealSnail3D หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@radio645 lol useless

  • @WVnFL_Gal
    @WVnFL_Gal 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +193

    As poor college kids we couldn't afford a phone, so we gave out the number to the payphone across the street. We would leave the door open someone would yell "phones ringing" and one of us woud run over to answer it. 😊 thanks for bringing that fun memory into my conscious

    • @LagrangePoint0
      @LagrangePoint0 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      dayum, for real?

    • @sebastian3004
      @sebastian3004 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      I was surprised after I learned you can call a fucking payphone from the landline in Hollywood movies. In my country, there was no such thing.

    • @YouilAushana
      @YouilAushana 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ​@@LagrangePoint0you could only imagine the schemes my sociopath mother had us pulling

    • @wileecoyote5749
      @wileecoyote5749 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      80s drug dealers in Bronx too

    • @FullHD-g4x
      @FullHD-g4x 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Back in mid 70s I used the long distance calls with the help from zA Hoffmans book that let me record sounds of coins and the kerplunks
      Play Back 5 10 25 cent sounds and make your calls

  • @writerconsidered
    @writerconsidered หลายเดือนก่อน +1046

    I love the internet. You get every kind of mad lad with some niche interest you never thought was a thing.

    • @FlatbushZombiesBuyNTrade-lq5ji
      @FlatbushZombiesBuyNTrade-lq5ji 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      @@sheateeley1doesn’t make a difference what way you say it..

    • @sheateeley1
      @sheateeley1 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@FlatbushZombiesBuyNTrade-lq5ji Alright bud.

    • @OnceShy_TwiceBitten
      @OnceShy_TwiceBitten 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yup. lol

    • @daveshongkongchinachannel
      @daveshongkongchinachannel 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Many of us would be that mad lad too if we had the skills and knowledge.

    • @xenthia
      @xenthia 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ??? What did that person say? ​@@FlatbushZombiesBuyNTrade-lq5ji

  • @AxelWerner
    @AxelWerner หลายเดือนก่อน +1402

    Who wouldn't want a personal payphone in the backyard??!

    • @kensims4086
      @kensims4086 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Me.

    • @bobcaygeon975
      @bobcaygeon975 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      Historically, Payphones were always 1/4 mi. from a crack house methlab.

    • @elixier33
      @elixier33 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Like everyone. No one wanted to use them when installed in public either..

    • @CookieXD1998
      @CookieXD1998 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Mee

    • @Kredo800
      @Kredo800 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Good passive source of income though. ))

  • @MrTurkeypoult
    @MrTurkeypoult หลายเดือนก่อน +560

    Dude has one of the only exits to the Matrix left!😂

    • @imafirenmehlazer1
      @imafirenmehlazer1 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      Lol yes morphis I'll take the red pill.

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      Operator! I need an exit!

    • @snesguy9176
      @snesguy9176 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      If the matrix were to be remade I wonder what they would use instead 🤔

    • @3nertia
      @3nertia 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      So that's the real reason payphones went extinct! Now we're all trapped in the Matrix! 😱

    • @3nertia
      @3nertia 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@snesguy9176 Smartphones because the Matrix got a wifi upgrade :D

  • @hosk1677
    @hosk1677 หลายเดือนก่อน +801

    My dad worked for GTE in the 80s and early 90s as a lineman. When GTE phased out their rotary pay phones he snagged one and installed it in my bedroom as my landline. He converted it to touch tone and bypassed the need to put in change. That sucker was HEAVY, lol

    • @MoonbeamAcres
      @MoonbeamAcres หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      My Dad also was a lineman in the 1980's. He retired before GTE sold their soul to Verizon. He originally worked for Texas Telephone after WW2, then 'Ma Bell' in the 1950's. then General in the 1960's and I grew up with him working for GTE and going off to disasters to help lay phone lines. Do you remember that dial up portable phone thingy they used to clip on the phone lines and test them? Somewhere, I still have my Dads... And I still have his original pole climbing gear (before they started using bucket trucks). Damn I miss my Daddy...

    • @hosk1677
      @hosk1677 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@MoonbeamAcres yep! My dad kept his test kit for a while but I think it got lost after a couple moves. Wild how they used to climb poles with the boot spikes. My dad’s spikes slipped once and he suffered a pretty nasty back injury sliding down. He ended up getting laid off in the 90s when GTE started downsizing and got into the nascent cellular coms field. That ended up being a blessing in disguise.

    • @DandyDon1
      @DandyDon1 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That Automatic Electric equipment is heavy duty! You should see their early transistorized reel to reel tape answering machines!

    • @jordan.7
      @jordan.7 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Thats real cool. Do you still have the payphone in your room?

    • @hosk1677
      @hosk1677 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @ no, that was decades and many moves ago. Probably got donated or given away when we moved across country. Would be a cool thing to still have though.

  • @cburgess5294
    @cburgess5294 หลายเดือนก่อน +391

    "Why is this guy so jazzed about pay phones???"
    Starts talking about his personal PBX.....
    "Oh, I get it now"

    • @ridgerunner-x3w
      @ridgerunner-x3w หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      👍😃

    • @selcatron
      @selcatron 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      i just learned what PBX means lol I worked in hospitals I have always wondered what that internal dial system thing was called thanks

  • @Techsupport243
    @Techsupport243 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +175

    Wow TH-cam recommended a random video that's actually good. That doesn't happen often. This is exactly the kind of video I want. A video from an extremely knowledgeable person enthusiastically talking about an esoteric subject. Awesome video man!

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  20 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

      I may be a bit dry at times but I try the best I can without a script. c:

    • @Techsupport243
      @Techsupport243 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      @@CelGenStudios Just realized comment could come off as sarcastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the video. Probably could have worded my comment better.

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  17 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@Techsupport243 No offense taken. I didn't notice. :)

  • @bobcaygeon975
    @bobcaygeon975 หลายเดือนก่อน +533

    the MOJAVE PHONE BOOTH sat in a remote area of the Mojave National Preserve since 1948. It drew attention in 1997 after someone published its number online. People from around the world call it at all hours and have conversations with random strangers. The fun lasted until the Park Service ripped it out in 2000.

    • @RealSnail3D
      @RealSnail3D หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      “Until the Park Service Ripped it out in 2000” lololol that sounds personal

    • @Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles
      @Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@RealSnail3D That's the part that caught my eye too! "ripped it out..."

    • @Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles
      @Tomovox_PAMS_Radio_JIngles หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      I actually like that random people would call a payphone and have a conversation with other random people. So of course, we can't have that sort of thing happening!

    • @bobcaygeon975
      @bobcaygeon975 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      @@RealSnail3D
      The Parks Service also removed a plaque that memorialized the booth.

    • @tapetwo7115
      @tapetwo7115 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      You can still call the Mojave Phone Booth number. It’s ported to a live public conference bridge where random curious people dial in and meet like minded individuals. (1 - 9)There’s also a new fun silly public voice bulletin board if you wanna post a voice message for others to hear. (0)

  • @tissuepaper9962
    @tissuepaper9962 หลายเดือนก่อน +119

    0:45 the dolly zoom done by hand is actually hella impressive. i've tried doing that several times and it's rather difficult to get the zoom speed matched up with your walking speed.

    • @GeekFreeek
      @GeekFreeek 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      i was wondering how and why it looked different. I dont know if its part of the phone recording/zoom or an edit

    • @bloodclot
      @bloodclot 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's not as hard as you think especially with a standalone camcorder

  • @Tmm42s
    @Tmm42s หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    In Australia payphones are still common and funded by the government and free to use just in case people’s phones are flat or people’s prepaid phones are out of credit…. They also have free wifi access points inside

    • @My_Old_YT_Account
      @My_Old_YT_Account 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Based Australia

    • @waza987
      @waza987 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Indirectly funded by the government. Basically the government has a contract with the largest phone network and pays them to provide a certain number of pay phones covering certain areas. The provider was charging still for calls but basically decided it cost them less to just give free calls anywhere in Australia rather than go around and collect coins and maintain the coin collection mechanism.

    • @intensecutn
      @intensecutn 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@waza987and that historical contract has allowed Telstra to convert their 'payphones' into giant billboards that obstruct the footpath in the city. Free advertisements in lucrative areas is the reason they still have payphones.

    • @goombabear
      @goombabear 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Many American cities and municipal parks have free wifi and most businesses have free wifi for it's guests. Poor Americans can get a free cell phone and a certain amount of free minutes as well. And in the US we don't pay anywhere near the taxes Australians have to pay out.

    • @marklar7551
      @marklar7551 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@goombabearpopulation of Australia 27 million
      Population of the USA 335 million
      Which government do you think collects more in taxes?
      Texas is smaller than Australia yet has 61 million people and is still mostly empty....free phones are a good idea 👽🗿👽🗿👽

  • @angellynette8258
    @angellynette8258 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    I love that my town has left a few of the old pay phones standing, some even have the phone still in them even though they are no longer in use. I’ve even seen people taking pictures at one, 😂

    • @kellyclark7517
      @kellyclark7517 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Me too, and I took pictures of all of them❤

  • @virtuelles-ankerzentrum
    @virtuelles-ankerzentrum 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

    Great ti see that there are normal ppl with normal hobbys

  • @y0ur_name_here
    @y0ur_name_here หลายเดือนก่อน +112

    I have a gate at the end of my driveway. A keypad was needed to operate the gate, so I installed a drive up payphone pedestal and a payphone. It also connects to the line in the house, so along with the cameras installed there, I can talk to someone without having open the gate. Plus it just looks cool.

    • @Mutlap
      @Mutlap หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      photo, please

    • @y0ur_name_here
      @y0ur_name_here หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @Mutlap you can't post photos here unfortunately.

    • @imafirenmehlazer1
      @imafirenmehlazer1 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Do you want to accept this collect call?, press 1 to accept 😂 God that is pure nostalgia

    • @okaycola2
      @okaycola2 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Genius

    • @marklar7551
      @marklar7551 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      It's also built to last, unlike anything available to buy these days 👽🗿👽🗿👽

  • @thatoneguy6725
    @thatoneguy6725 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +109

    This video speaks to my soul. Ive wanted a payphone for some time now. Every time i see one in the wild i see if it works. Sometimes they do and i call my mom and tell her im calling her from a payphone lol

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      I'm always amazed when I encounter one. Most have been gone for 20+ years if not more. I wonder if there are more of them in extremely rural places where there aren't cell towers. Heck, I live in a cellular dead spot, but you can get service a mile or two away! No payphones here, though.

    • @CopelandPlays
      @CopelandPlays 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      That’s so wholesome

    • @Kazekoge101
      @Kazekoge101 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Basically 99.999+% gone here in NYC

    • @MrCantStopTheRobot
      @MrCantStopTheRobot 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      You would think payphones would always be useful as an emergency / last resort tool... so there should be just a few scattered around every town. Like 2 on the main street. Don't have to know any addresses, just wander what looks like the main street and you'll hit one.

    • @philp7353
      @philp7353 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      does 1-800-COLLECT still work?

  • @generaldissaray4109
    @generaldissaray4109 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    you really nailed that sickly yellow color and pale glow of the original light

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      You just need to add the occasional flicker of the dying tube/ballast.

  • @maa76249
    @maa76249 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

    If I bought your house with this already installed in the backyard, then it rang in the middle of the night, I would have a heart attack and actually die. Imagine having this in the backyard and having no idea who installed it or why. This is how urban legends get started.

    • @3nertia
      @3nertia 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      I hate how right you are and how accurate that is xD

    • @marklar7551
      @marklar7551 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      One reason, it's an exit from the matrix 🗿👽🗿👽🗿

    • @evelynwaugh4053
      @evelynwaugh4053 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You would mostly get calls from stoners asking for Dave.

  • @Davett53
    @Davett53 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    I grew up in the Payphone era. I always loved the sit down, full enclosure models. They were places to escape to in a busy airport, tavern, bowling alley, etc.

    • @MaseraSteve
      @MaseraSteve 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Oh yea I got a very short experience of it in the early 2000s gotta have to get those replicated on my lounge room one day after my own vending machine. But I prefer the newer model obviously

    • @marklar7551
      @marklar7551 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Oh yeah, the sex boxes.... don't touch ANYTHING in there

    • @Davett53
      @Davett53 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@marklar7551 Ha ha!

    • @Davett53
      @Davett53 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@marklar7551 Ha, ha, ha,.....(Sex boxes?!) Too small for intercourse, I believe,.....maybe a blow job, or a hand job. LOL!

  • @jbird5953
    @jbird5953 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    Lighting it up at the end was the finishing touch. This is a fine tribute to a bygone era and it looks completely at home in your backyard. Thanks for sharing this!

  • @oatmeal710
    @oatmeal710 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    thanks for installing the first working payphone i've ever seen in my lifetime

    • @erichross672
      @erichross672 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I'm 43, and pay phones are what I miss most about the old world, if your phone dies and you need to make a call you can't. They took them out of the poor neighborhoods first, they day because of drugs, there real goal was to get a cell phone in everyone's hands so they could track our every move.

    • @TheKing-jt4bg
      @TheKing-jt4bg 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I'm 22, and there were many payphones in my city in southern Argentina when i was a little kid, but unfortunally they removed all of them around 2010, 2 years ago i traveled to a nearby town and in one street there was a busted payphone like the ones i saw as a kid

    • @sophiaschier-hanson4163
      @sophiaschier-hanson4163 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I’ve actually seen brand new working ones at bus and train stations recently. One of many refurbishments “COVID money” was spent on. :)

  • @SomeoneBloodyRandom
    @SomeoneBloodyRandom หลายเดือนก่อน +110

    I’m sure, one day, the novelty of having a payphone will wear off…. BUT TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY!!!!

    • @wlot28
      @wlot28 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      If anything, it'll only increase over time as it becomes more historical

  • @andywolan
    @andywolan หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Now this is the kind of "TH-cam recommendation" videos I need to see more of.

  • @greglee1174
    @greglee1174 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    In 1983 I had a cousin who worked for a telecommunications company. We spent the night with her and she let us call our mom from her car. Hey Mom, we’re calling you from Sherry’s car. Now in 2024 I would like to call my wife and say hey, I’m calling you from an actual payphone. 😂

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      That's pretty slick to call from a car in 1983! That was a real rarity! In fact, I didn't even know that was possible back then.

    • @marklar7551
      @marklar7551 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Since June of 1946 you could call from inside a car wirelessly. The first consumer car phones were in development since the 1910s with 1 million users of car phones by 1964. The cellular phone hit cars in the early 1980s and didn't need to be part of a car package but could be installed after purchase. Then they packaged up that phone as a mobile device that was a giant briefcase and a corded handset (you can see it in 80s movies like Lethal Weapon) 👽🗿👽🗿👽

    • @jameswood231
      @jameswood231 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Interesting🤔

  • @chargermopar
    @chargermopar หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    I have had one in my yard for almost 20 years. Just got through derusting and repainting it. That's a good deal on that stuff. My payphones have Protel boards and I have them set up with Expressnet software running on an old computer. I have no landline but I do use a channel bank running off of Asterisk. I installed LED lights in mine as well and it's solar powered!

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      It'd be fun to put one out in the woods randomly. I'd have to run a lot of wire, though, unless I rigged up a wireless link. That would be cheating and inauthentic, though. There's a rail trail up in the woods behind my house. This is a very rural one, the kind people cross country ski on and there is usually no one on it. It would be fun to have a phone off the trail (still on my property) and see who would try to make calls on it. Either local calls only, or some kind of mockup PBX that would simulate a real phone. It's the kind of novelty that would probably eventually appear in a local paper, assuming people didn't vandalize the crap out of it.

    • @chargermopar
      @chargermopar 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Dwigt_Rortugal You could also string up a drop line between trees LOL!

  • @NetflixForeign
    @NetflixForeign หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    I would LOVE to have a booth. I used them one or twice to call someone when they were more in use. I still think it is smart for emergency reasons to keep a number of them on state and national highways.
    I know people can dismiss it and say "Hey, you can get cell phone for emergency use only.". If someone gets kidnapped or something happens the first thing that will happen is that cell phone is getting seized.

    • @Compact-Disc_700mb
      @Compact-Disc_700mb หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Yeah they are a very nice thing to have around, cellphones can get lost, stolen, broken, not have service, dead battery, or just fail. I don't really like cellphones and would like to have payphones as an option, it probably won't happen but it would be nice if they came back or at they very least stop disappearing.

    • @NetflixForeign
      @NetflixForeign หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@Compact-Disc_700mb Well them disappearing on busy highways and especially more rural just says they are ok with people being trafficked on there.

    • @vadim6385
      @vadim6385 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Compact-Disc_700mb payphones get broken, vandalized, stolen, disconnected, just randomly die. No more reliable than a cellphone

    • @tsiefhtes
      @tsiefhtes หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I firmly believe they should be and all state-owned highway rest stops. There are versions of payphones that accept bills, credit cards and even tap to pay. A lot of those car rest stops are in areas that have dodgy cell phone reception anyways so if someone is stranded this would guarantee they're able to reach out for help. If tax money is being used to pay for rest stops there is no reason not to add something as basic as this.

    • @Compact-Disc_700mb
      @Compact-Disc_700mb 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@vadim6385 Yeah true, but cellphones have problems too, if both are available then you have another option.

  • @youtoobe169
    @youtoobe169 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Very cool! I am glad TH-cam randomly recommended this to me

  • @networkg
    @networkg หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I'm glad your realize the false sense of security surge suppressors or even ground fault interrupters have. I once watched a lightning strike travel down the wire to the house, melt then jump over the remains of the ground fault interrupter and go on its merry route through the electrical system and eventually into the ground.

  • @seabass1111
    @seabass1111 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Im glad you put a payphone for the time traveler from 1960

  • @CocoHutzpah
    @CocoHutzpah หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I didn't know I wanted this, but if I have a yard again, I need a payphone for it.

  • @RunnerSandman
    @RunnerSandman หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    GTE! YES! I grew up in Redondo Beach. I remember the walk-in phone booths (convenient during rain, lol) and, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, it was 10 cents for a local call... of course, I would have been just as pleased had you installed a Pacific Bell setup, since I had childhood friends in Torrance, one of whom turned me on to phreaking and inspired me to build a so-called "red box" by replacing the crystal in a Radio Shack pocket dialer. Memories! You got yourself a sub from me!

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      All the different boxes distinguished by colors... there was so much lore around them. I never tried to build one, but now I wish I had.

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Pacific Telephone
      Pre 1984

  • @fab555trainspottingandmore
    @fab555trainspottingandmore หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I couldn't believe it when i saw a Person using a phone booth in Zurich in Switzerland. There are still a few left but they are free to use since a few years

  • @sweettina2
    @sweettina2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Very cool! I've always wanted an old British red phone booth in my house that really worked. You did a great job. Lol, i have to be honest, throughout the video i kept having these visions of your wife peeping out the window wondering what on earth is he dragging home now...been there.

  • @Dwigt_Rortugal
    @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    It was sad when all the payphones started to get decommissioned. My entire childhood, payphones were all you used when you were away from home or work. My first car broke down, and I walked to an old lady's house and used her phone to call AAA. There was a payphone in my dorm, and I'd use a cheap MCI calling card to talk to my girlfriend. The dorm was old enough that there was an actual wooden enclosure with a seat. Then, over the course of about a year, the payphones started disappearing, leaving behind sun bleached outlines and dangling wires. I didn't have a cell phone yet. It was the end of an era. I never thought it would be kind of sad remembering that, but once something is gone forever, you look back at it through a romanticized lens.

  • @That0neDud
    @That0neDud 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    You should get a redbox kiosk

  • @423tech
    @423tech หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Your Panasonic PBX should support automatic line selection. Just set ext 205 for ALS and give it your POTS line.

  • @NeverMetTheGuy
    @NeverMetTheGuy หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is the most throwback-feeling TH-cam videos I've seen in a long time. Thanks for making a video I never knew I needed.

  • @borisbeaver
    @borisbeaver หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Also, I just realized that it's a GTE model. My grandmother worked as an operator for GTE for many years in Oregon. She started in the era of hand-pulling and plugging individual connecting cords and retired a few years into the early computerized era.

  • @robertmoore254
    @robertmoore254 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I acquired 8 of these for free and I have refurbished one and converted it for home use. Most of them still have money in them but you have to drill out two hardened steel locks.

    • @Subgunman
      @Subgunman หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Do some research and you might be able to find some keys for these, with so many pulled from service and many former bell employees out there you might hit the jackpot.

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This one came with no locks at all installed. The store sells replacement lock and key sets and I'll probably have to purchase a set in the future when I also go back and buy a coin box.

  • @johnlondon5413
    @johnlondon5413 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Now ET can FINALLY phone home😂 My father had an old wooden phone booth and it worked even the light came on when you shut the squeaky sliding door. Glad to see people still keeping retro stuff alive. Nice one, thanks 👍

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No, ET needs a Speak&Spell with a sawblade rigged up to it. It's specialized equipment.

  • @RDraGoNR660
    @RDraGoNR660 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    0:23 on "free-play" like it's a Pinball machine 🤣

  • @choppergirl
    @choppergirl หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I own a 1970's walk in glass payphone booth with no payphone lol
    I also got a lineman's handset signed by Capt'n Crunch...
    My neighbor owns a vending machine with the pull out bottles
    You need a fully operating telephone switching exchange in the basement like the Telephone History Museums

  • @Subgunman
    @Subgunman หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    If you have issues with lack of power to get the bells working try replacing them with solid state ringers. Mike Sandman in Chicago might still have some in stock.

  • @Davett53
    @Davett53 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Life was so much simpler, in the 1960s. You felt safe with hand full of dimes, to make an emergency phone call any time of day or night to your folks, or a buddy. A car repair shop or a service station if you were in trouble, your car broke down, you missed your flight, all sorts of situations. As kids we'd check the coin return slot, and fairly often you'd find a left-behind coin.
    Payphone were everywhere. Grocery stores, bowling alleys, service stations, etc, etc.

    • @Dwigt_Rortugal
      @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I'd always check the coin return slot, too, though I grew up in the 80s. They really were everywhere. Until they suddenly weren't.

    • @Davett53
      @Davett53 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Dwigt_Rortugal I wish a few were still around. People find themselves in situations where they may not have a personal cellphone. Although, through government subsidized programs even "bums" and hobos, have cellphones.

  • @Heather420
    @Heather420 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I honestly did understand most of this but I've gotta say it's so badass you have one up and running. It was very nostalgic hearing it ring

  • @Egress.
    @Egress. หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    That pedestal has a rather rare addition - the Attractor top! its a neon green-yellow sheet of plastic in the top designed to catch your eye. they came in green, yellow, and a purple-red color. I've only ever seen the green and yellow ones.
    BTW, do you have a link to the listings of the payphones, I can't seem to find them :/

    • @Egress.
      @Egress. หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Also, obligatory “welcome to the club of having a working payphone”. Maybe we can call eachother sometime 😂

  • @mrt1957
    @mrt1957 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    one of the best TH-cam of 2024! Great idea and presentation!

  • @stafomosakez
    @stafomosakez 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I remember when we used to skateboard and got the number to the payphone near a store. We'd call it and see if anyone would pick it up.

  • @ENWWN
    @ENWWN 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Thanks! Memories my childhood school years ..... Three-slot pay telephone, small public drinking fountain, police/fire call box, bus stop bench seat. What more could you ask for? Just remembered .. a street light. Thanks again!

  • @Sashko_Dee
    @Sashko_Dee หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    @2:09 Excellent, I found a place to get a phone booth. That's like half the time machine right there.

  • @HermesTrismegistes369
    @HermesTrismegistes369 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Gorgeous payphone. Love the soda machine too ❤ phuck yeah 🤙

  • @knottheory79220
    @knottheory79220 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ha, I remember GTE back in the day, that company was like Comcast or Spectrum before those existed. Every time one of their commercials came on the radio my dad would sing along to it,
    "Gee Tee Eee, Almost like a real telephone company!"

  • @yommish
    @yommish หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You’ve planted the seed in my head to have a working payphone in my garage or workspace some day.

  • @precisionxt
    @precisionxt หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    There was a payphone booth nearly knocked over and sitting in front of a local Dairy Queen in TX. Every time I passed it, i thought about stopping by and asking if I could remove it and bring it home. Unfortunately i waited too long and that Dairy Queen shut down one week and the booth was gone. I was bummed about it as I’m sure it was scraped. That’s very cool that you were able to get on in good shape!

    • @hufficag
      @hufficag หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Should of taken it. I ripped off a China Ping Pong sign at my local bath house where the ping pong table used to be. Glad I did because a year later it was renovated and gutted with an entirely new style, no more ping pong, no more many things, it's now family friendly, meant for people to bring their wives and children.

    • @klaasj7808
      @klaasj7808 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hufficag yeah the world is getting sadder, here they tore down a local music/concert events venue 2 years ago. Was in use from 1963. Builden was from the 1950's. Now they have built concrete apartments.

  • @Dwigt_Rortugal
    @Dwigt_Rortugal 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    That Pepsi machine is like a time machine to my childhood!

  • @itskdog
    @itskdog 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

    Tom Scott makes some good video recommendations.

  • @davidshepherd265
    @davidshepherd265 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Good move using a Panasonic battery instead of a “Maxell bomb”, as they’re known in the retro Apple community. Anyone with an old piece of gear that has an old Maxell half-AA battery installed is best to remove it ASAP before it pops and spews its guts over the internals. Also, that is neat. I’d probably look into doing the same thing if I didn’t own an apartment.

  • @wolfmangoland7972
    @wolfmangoland7972 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Ah, a payphone in the yard-a bold move. Because who wouldn’t want a piece of public hygiene history conveniently located next to their hydrangeas? Bonus points if you stock it with quarters and a rotary dial for the full 'lost in time' experience. Neighborhood kids are gonna be so confused when they try to swipe their credit cards!

  • @hunterericson6782
    @hunterericson6782 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    im a huge phone collector, have a few of these, but this is an AMAZING piece !!!

  • @azurplex
    @azurplex หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Coin op things are strict about coin size and weight to reject blanks and counterfeits and Canadian quarters have slightly different dimensions and weight than U.S. ones so will be rejected by the mechanism. Perhaps the hardware exists to swap in a Canadian quarter mechanism. That would probably mean buying a whole payphone from somewhere in Canada since the coin checker is probably not available separately anymore but it's worth some internet (or antique/surplus shop) searching.

    • @RetroCaptain
      @RetroCaptain หลายเดือนก่อน

      GTE is/was USA only company as far as pay phone went that I ever saw.
      50 years ago some small communities were on their own phone system and used AE rotary dial phone.

  • @redline1916
    @redline1916 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    One of the local diners near me still has a functioning payphone with an updated yellow pages.

  • @almosthuman4457
    @almosthuman4457 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very nerdy. I like it.

  • @Ojisan642
    @Ojisan642 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I like the cross branding of this unit. I worked for GTE right before it merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon. GTE and Verizon never coexisted, but rather one replaced the other. So having these both represented here is just great. I don’t miss using pay phones but they are definitely nostalgic!

    • @leebryantutah
      @leebryantutah 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You could have seen a mix of branded parts out in the wild, though, correct?

    • @Ojisan642
      @Ojisan642 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @ I would say definitely yes and this combination makes sense. An old 1990s GTE phone booth gets a broken phone replaced during the post-2001 Verizon era. Assuming they don’t bother replacing the booth itself, this is what you’d end up with.

  • @kaleych.8065
    @kaleych.8065 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    That dolly zoom at 0:44 is a moment of cinema I didn't expect on a random vlog appearing on my feed

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I gotta try that again somehow.

  • @wumpus3719
    @wumpus3719 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    this is the coolest thing ive seen all month

  • @mfbfreak
    @mfbfreak หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    5:29 i would kinda expect that when i pick up, i get a Grand Theft Auto mission...

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      There may or may not be instructions taped under the phone....

  • @invicta6110
    @invicta6110 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is great! I bought a pay phone years ago and have been trying to figure out what to do with it. It's almost too heavy for a wall mount unless you want lots of reinforcement, ordering a platform from her sounds about right. Need to look her up.

  • @Drug_Fueled_Nightmare
    @Drug_Fueled_Nightmare หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I wanted to buy a Redbox and put my own dvds in there but when I went to my Walmart someone already beat me to both of them

    • @ckm-mkc
      @ckm-mkc หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's still one in my local Safeway....

    • @Drug_Fueled_Nightmare
      @Drug_Fueled_Nightmare หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ckm-mkc I found one at my Walgreens still too there sprinkled around

  • @FredricoMayonetti
    @FredricoMayonetti 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Man you’re really smart. 10/10 video.

  • @wesley00042
    @wesley00042 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "Gee!" No, GTE.

  • @harveyradius
    @harveyradius 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've wanted to do this for so long. Great video, super informative. Glad to see another coin-op enthusiast.

  • @stpworld
    @stpworld หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I found a rest area with a working pay phone this summer.

  • @badwolf9090
    @badwolf9090 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've been wondering what my garden has been missing. Thank you, I needed this.

  • @MattsCorner-kc6pt
    @MattsCorner-kc6pt หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Not all protel boards support programing from the keypad. Only a select few do. I think i have the programing instructions for mine somehwere. There are codes you punch in on the keypad to alter different settings. Send me a PM and ill see if i can dig up my instructions.

  • @shannongolden
    @shannongolden 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love it! Rad! I think the nostalgia will last forever!

  • @RetroTechIIfx
    @RetroTechIIfx หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    GTE badging with a Bell/VZ money holder, interesting combo. Is the original chassis/dial pad a GTE AE manufactured one, or a Western Electric or Nortel one that was transplanted to former GTE territory after protel-ization? To complete the look, instead of a small plastic box for fault isolation, you need to find one of those small metal pedestals used by the telco.
    The example you have isn’t that that weathered! And it lights up nicely, which is awesome. Nice job on the install.

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Not entirely sure myself of the config. From what I was told it's currently as-is from where in the Seattle area it was removed form service.

    • @thecooldude9999
      @thecooldude9999 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That’s a GTE Automatic Electric style phone. When Bell Atlantic bought GTE in 2000, creating Verizon, they put the Bell logo on all of their payphones, no matter if they were former Bell or former GTE.
      WE and AE Payphone parts are not interchangeable, not even the vault door. And yes, that means Verizon made vault doors with a bell logo on them that could only fit GTE AE phones!
      Was a weird rebranding effort back in the early 2000s.

  • @Trekapedia
    @Trekapedia หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bows down to you! Holy smokes that’s awesome man.

  • @borisbeaver
    @borisbeaver หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I'd expect nothing less 😊

  • @marywegrzyn506
    @marywegrzyn506 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love it! I would love to have a real old fashioned pay phone!!!! 💙💙💙💙💙

  • @mgratk
    @mgratk หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In the late 80s early 90s my local public library had a great full sized dark stained wood phone booth. Even then it was ancient and I wonder what ever happened to it.

  • @WolfsBane-s5g
    @WolfsBane-s5g 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Really awesome video and love the old style look !

  • @johng.1703
    @johng.1703 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    rather than reprogramming the payphone it might be a lot easier to reprogram the PBX and not require the 9 for an outside line for that one particular extension.

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That was considered. Mainly I have to choose what VoIP line I want to use. The local number or the number that goes into a private phone network.

  • @TheAlexErnstShow
    @TheAlexErnstShow 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Been thinking about getting one but want it to work off of a data plan lol

  • @Avocadomushroom
    @Avocadomushroom 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    1:31 I just want that round rock at the right of the screen 😩😩😩😩

  • @ivanxyz1
    @ivanxyz1 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    So cool. My mom has some yellow pages for that thing.

  • @Alexander_l322
    @Alexander_l322 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    It’s like a GTA payphone 😮 I love this and think you’re a very cool person for having such a unique idea to put this in your garden

    • @TheCencc
      @TheCencc 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Yeah... very interesting thing, those "GTA payphones"... uh, they're from this thing people call real life.

    • @furryballsploppedmenacingl8534
      @furryballsploppedmenacingl8534 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      When people forget GTA is based off of real life.

    • @tsu08761e
      @tsu08761e 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@TheCenccobviously, but not everyone is going to be familiar with it from real life

  • @Drawededed
    @Drawededed 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It's like you stayed in the 90's, love it!

  • @GabeTheGabriel
    @GabeTheGabriel 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    4:54 bro is out of breath from walking in his yard 😂

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He could use some exercise..he'll stop breathing hard

  • @Lank2thepast
    @Lank2thepast 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    That puppy looks brand new

  • @Thomas-yr9ln
    @Thomas-yr9ln หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    In the UK they started scrapping pay phones as soon as they came out with cellphones. They didn't wait like America. Out with the old and in with the new.

    • @someguy9778
      @someguy9778 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah...Not true. Some of us have traveled.

  • @Bombay_BadBoy
    @Bombay_BadBoy 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So much to learn from such a short video lol - this is awesome

  • @dglass2008
    @dglass2008 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    PAYPHONE!!! I REMEMBER THOSE!!!

  • @tonythedonluciano
    @tonythedonluciano 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Bro, that's so freaking cool! 😎

  • @salpertia
    @salpertia หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Not sure if this was already set up to make calls, but it was a missed opportunity to not have it ringing at the end of the video.
    Subscribe anyway though neat stuff

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Now that you mention it, I think I know what you mean. Whoops.

  • @thenarrowpathoftruth9443
    @thenarrowpathoftruth9443 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You have my deepest respect and admiration.

  • @ddjohnson9717
    @ddjohnson9717 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    15:21 hate to be the one to brag but also has a payphone in his backyard.. bro really made no attempt to be humble

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ever since I started messing with phones I've been nagged repeatedly if I had a payphone, hence the phrasing even in the thumbnail. A few people knew at this point I had one and they wanted me to talk about it.

    • @ddjohnson9717
      @ddjohnson9717 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CelGenStudios yeah thats my failed attempt to make a joke. I do collect old typewriters and minerals too

  • @mallocpanda
    @mallocpanda 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    great job with the lighting!

  • @JamMC
    @JamMC 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Next, a street light.

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There's TWO rare fluorescent streetlights in storage. There's no way in hell I'm installing a pole for that. :P

    • @JamMC
      @JamMC 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @ You could mount them onto a wall with a wall bracket.

  • @mirisoji8406
    @mirisoji8406 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That's so neat! It would make a neat decorative home phone if I had the space. I like the old newspaper boxes people use inside to hold their records and record players too. I would put them next to each other lol

  • @minty_Joe
    @minty_Joe หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    0:44-0:47, nice zooming effect. Were you zooming in whilst backing up or the opposite of that?

    • @CelGenStudios
      @CelGenStudios  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah I noticed that by accident and decided "hey, I should try and use that effect" and it's hard. The further you zoom in while walking backwards the harder it is to keep it steady.

    • @minty_Joe
      @minty_Joe หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@CelGenStudios It's the same technique Spielberg used in Jaws, when Chief Brody is alarmed by the shark attack on the Kintner boy (Alex). Or The Lion King, when Simba sees the wildebeest stampede coming down the gorge.

    • @mediocreman2
      @mediocreman2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@minty_JoeIt's not the same technique in Lion King because it's a freaking cartoon and there were no cameras.

  • @imnitguy
    @imnitguy 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I remember watching Wargames when I was 15 which was around the time when Southern Bell was getting broken up and MCI and Sprint came on the scene. You had to dial a local number and enter a 5 - 7 digit code and then dial the number you were dialing. I wrote a program on my Commodore 64 to randomly or sequentially dial numbers and then call compuserve all night long. It would peek a register to determine if a computer carrier had answered the call, in which case it would save the code on the screen. In the morning I would have codes down the screen of valid dialing sequences. In other words I set my computer up to hack them all night long so I could dial all the west coast BBS' and download all the zero day warez! The more things change the more they stay the same. Cool video friend!