Time changes everything! I think there is one payphone left in Ocala - in the downtown square. And I've not seen a dial phone in many years. In fact, like more and more people, we no longer have a landline - just cell phones. Not sure if that's good or bad...in the old days we used to go for a ride just to get away from the phone. Now there's no getting away! Ugh!
I now photograph pay phones when I see them, and the opportunities are few and far between. My college students had never seen a rotary dial phone, and did not know how they worked. Great sign!
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Time changes everything! I think there is one payphone left in Ocala - in the downtown square. And I've not seen a dial phone in many years. In fact, like more and more people, we no longer have a landline - just cell phones. Not sure if that's good or bad...in the old days we used to go for a ride just to get away from the phone. Now there's no getting away! Ugh!
We still have quite a few around and about Karl. I was just watching the other day while someone went in to make a call.
How true!!
You are right, nice contrast in the second image!
I now photograph pay phones when I see them, and the opportunities are few and far between. My college students had never seen a rotary dial phone, and did not know how they worked. Great sign!
....and a few years more, is a new generation that has never seen one of these kind phones.
Love that second shot with the weathered wood...
Great captures. In Florida, the Department of Transportation is removing the roadside emergency telephones, because nearly everyone has cell phones.
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