I miss pay phones. I grew up with them in the 60s. Used to check the little change cup in each one I walked by to check for change. It was a happy day when I found a couple of dimes. That meant candy run at the liquor store!
(dial 0 for Operator) hello, Operator! This phone didn't give my dime (10 cents) back and I have no more change. Can you help me?! No, it's not in the coin return or coin slot! What can I do? Operator: Hello, "sir" are you still there? Yes,ma'am. You need to say your name and phone number, and address, and we'll send you a refund within 2 weeks. But operator I have no money NOW. I'm sorry, sir, that's all we can do. (I'm all of 15 yrs. old)! 4 days later I received a letter with a card in it that had a dime taped to it! The scam of my life! I've felt guilty ever since! Peace
oh man...the side of that phone booth has an ad for ‘windows on the world’ restaurant (110 stories and just as many entrees) which was on top of the south tower. i had dinner there once with a very special friend of mine back in the day...it was magical...
He did that often I remember especially during the 90s. I wish people had more videos of this because it's my biggest memory I had of the vintage shows.
Kids today have no clue how tedious it was to make a phone call while away from home or an office. And my generation don't know how it was before there were telephones. The way the world is going, we might end up back in that position again.
Dave I have to tell you I study color in a pinstripe the biggest BMW dealer in the United States with paint ! Johanes Itten is a famous German color theorist ! He took a lot of major works of art and integrated their colors to arrive at one color. That color is medium Gray like your shirts. His conclusion was that medium gray satisfies the mind !!! And I must say the most popular color of BMWs is gray !! So Dave there you have it !!
Old New Yorkers, what’s that statue in the bushes with the cane? I haven’t noticed a statue like that since my first time in Times Square in 2002. But who was it?
Not only did the concept of this bit not work, the technical idea failed too, since they didn't switch their on-air camera to the Times Square Jumbotron TV fast enough, and too many other people were in the way. Most of Letterman's bits failed when he used average regular people. It was a stupid idea to do this, because average regular people are not performers, so Letterman resorted to making them look either stupid, or ridiculous, or ugly. Letterman's cocky elitist producers and writers looked down on average regular people. So did Letterman, which is why Cher called him and asshole when she appeared on his show.
I miss pay phones. I grew up with them in the 60s. Used to check the little change cup in each one I walked by to check for change. It was a happy day when I found a couple of dimes. That meant candy run at the liquor store!
You don't miss payphones; you miss being young and not having responsibilities
That’s weird as a kid I always made liquor runs at the candy store
(dial 0 for Operator) hello, Operator! This phone didn't give my dime (10 cents) back and I have no more change. Can you help me?! No, it's not in the coin return or coin slot! What can I do? Operator: Hello, "sir" are you still there? Yes,ma'am. You need to say your name and phone number, and address, and we'll send you a refund within 2 weeks. But operator I have no money NOW. I'm sorry, sir, that's all we can do. (I'm all of 15 yrs. old)! 4 days later I received a letter with a card in it that had a dime taped to it! The scam of my life! I've felt guilty ever since! Peace
Down payment on a tube of Hair Epoxy!
@@dk14929 bullshit. Pay phones are awesome. Something about anonymity we all used to have
NOBODY gets close to Letterman.
Mrs. Letterman
Good ole Vintage Letterman when pay phones were a plenty.
110 stories and just as many entrees.
Add for windows on the world, Twin towers
oh man...the side of that phone booth has an ad for ‘windows on the world’ restaurant (110 stories and just as many entrees) which was on top of the south tower. i had dinner there once with a very special friend of mine back in the day...it was magical...
The good ole days when there were no cell phones 😎❤️
2:07 that pencil flip.
He didn't even look
What about it?
Yoo wtf
He did that often I remember especially during the 90s. I wish people had more videos of this because it's my biggest memory I had of the vintage shows.
Ok youngsters that’s called a Pay Phone we had to put money in it to make a phone call lol
i still have several of those Top Ten books!
incredible pencil flip at 2:06
That was pretty awesome
Paul played it out with "We ain't got nothin' yet". Paul was an encyclopedia of pop music. Not only that but his band was right with him.
Kids today have no clue how tedious it was to make a phone call while away from home or an office. And my generation don't know how it was before there were telephones. The way the world is going, we might end up back in that position again.
Wow, I couldn't stop looking at the poster of the Twin Towers on the phone banks. Chilll's and heartache.
wew
I bought those Top Ten books, and still have them. 😁
Didn't know you could call a payphone!
Anyway miss letterman
Wow, pay phones. You don't see those any more.
Dave I have to tell you I study color in a pinstripe the biggest BMW dealer in the United States with paint !
Johanes Itten is a famous German color theorist ! He took a lot of major works of art and integrated their colors to arrive at one color.
That color is medium Gray like your shirts. His conclusion was that medium gray satisfies the mind !!! And I must say the most popular color of BMWs is gray !! So Dave there you have it !!
He was an original. So funny.
Lol I have those top ten books! Plus one on the old guy that used to be on regularly, I totally forget his name.
Calvin DeForest! Just remembered!
Great days indeed .
Yeah this is Mayor Dinkins did I leave my car keys down there....hahahaha
Never seen Times Square so empty. Must've been nice
eLi FILMS until now!!!!!
the camera man actually aims back to the jumbotron to show us the pay phone guy on the jumbotron.... hmmm
Remember this next time someone tries to glorify the past by saying people are stupider now than they used to be
i had that book of top tens
Loved Dave, Thanks
Twin towers on the left with the number 11 repeated in the top corner and in the 110 stories is creepy.
Dave was alot FUNNIER in his older shows. New ones sucked.
Try and do this today..lol
Still have that book
In Times Square: Ads for Minolta, Kodak, Howard Johnson's. Do they even exist anymore?
this is candid camera
Dave should've had the guy pick up a sandwich and deliver it for him
Note World Trade Centre Windows of the World billboard
They added a new entrance in 2001
nearly anywhere you were, all you had to do was look up
the kids will never understand
Flashback to simpler times
Wow, i remember now i bought that book,lol
Pay phone and guy carrying newspapers….time capsule.
Pay phones, the news zipper and Howard Johnson’s!
Huge ad for Suntory Hibiki at 2:55. I didn't know Hibiki had been around that long!
I have that book 😂
your description says May 1992 but at 2:53 Dave says they're having early fall weather.
RIP 3:33
Old New Yorkers, what’s that statue in the bushes with the cane? I haven’t noticed a statue like that since my first time in Times Square in 2002. But who was it?
4:14 is this Beverly Garland wearing sunglasses?
"Early fall weather"
May??
5:03 it's TJ Miller!
Not really...
What are pay phones again?
Gee. What's a payphone?
Did I see a Howard Johnsons?
haha.. so random :D
dave was great. conan is even better
3:25 in case you missed it
Dave can be a real jerk sometime.
4:14 is that Donald Trump Jr?
No, it's Patrick Bateman. But same thing.
Thomas Latkowski Trump Jr. was 14 in 1992
Lame
The World Trade Center was destroyed on Tuesday September 11, 2001.
VHS Tape 7*
No way! Why hadn't I heard of this?
Really? I had no idea. I just read we landed on the moon.
Thanks for the tip, moron.
Good times good times
It was??? How did the rest of us not know?
How come he was never funny?
How come you click on videos of unfunny guys?
Not only did the concept of this bit not work, the technical idea failed too, since they didn't switch their on-air camera to the Times Square Jumbotron TV fast enough, and too many other people were in the way. Most of Letterman's bits failed when he used average regular people. It was a stupid idea to do this, because average regular people are not performers, so Letterman resorted to making them look either stupid, or ridiculous, or ugly. Letterman's cocky elitist producers and writers looked down on average regular people. So did Letterman, which is why Cher called him and asshole when she appeared on his show.
Oh brother.