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Color 3 Slot Payphones?

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
24 Jul 2006 08:59:44 -0700

An old "Brady Bunch" episode showed the parents using 3 slot pay
phones in a fancy restaurant. They were beige.

Phile the vast majority of Bell System 3 slot pay phones were black,
in some places they did use colors; I've seen beige in many places.

In rare instances, 3 slot phones had Touch Tone.

Some 3 slots were "modernized" by use of a flat panel front, but it
was the same phone behind it with chutes to route the coins.

Would anyone know what how common colored 3 slot pay phones were, and
if any were other than beige? Also, how common were Touch Tone 3 slot
phones?

I've seen single slot phones in a dark green instead of heavy gray in
a few places. I think all rotary models were converted to TT.

public replies, please

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, years ago they had colored three
slot payphones with Touch Tone at the Museum of Science and Industry
in Chicago in the telephone exhibit. They also had a beige colored
speakerphone payphone thing. That is, sit on a chair in the booth,
pay your ten cents, punch out the desired number and then talk to
the speaker in the booth. PAT]

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