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Is it true that in "ye olden times" you could sit at a dingy bar and ask the bartender for a phone and they'd give you a rotary phone on a long as cord so you could make a call while slinging drinks? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I've seen that in several 70s and 80s movies and I don't buy it's real. Wouldn't the bar just have a payphone?

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[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The bar my father spent all his time at had a phone like that. I used to have to call him there sometimes. If he wasn't home or at work, that's the place he'd be.

You'd think it'd be embarrassing to have your children calling the bar for you, but it didn't seem to bother him.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Did you ever ask to speak to I. C. Weiner?