Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public - Core77
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Payphones "were the only things that were built to last for decades and be out in the elements," says electrical engineer Patrick Schlott. He should know; as a hobby, he buys secondhand payphones, rewires them, then asks local businesses in rural Vermont if they'd let him install them. His goal
  • forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    i genuinely love this. i hate the erosion of public services like this, and this gives me a sliver of hope that we might not be entirely fucked but at the same time i’m pissed that they ever went away in the first place.