Sesame Street - Luis & the Two Headed Monster

[sparty0307]

I saw that coming a mile away, but still soooo funny! I love how Louis always seems to be at the butt end of a joke!

[Bigben1984]

a dime? this had to be the 70's cuz I thought it was always a quarter in the 80's and the first half of the 90's35 cents in the second half of the 90's and fifty cents since 2000 but most people don't use pay phones no more cuz of a few reasons.

1. almost everybody has cell phones

2. Most pay phones have been removed because they're either owned by the same company who owns the cell phones or too many drug dealers using them

[mygirlfriendisback]

The Cell Phones wasn't introduced until the

80's. By the 90's The Phones are getting smaller. Today we all using cellphones.neither at School or the Office. LOL

[unclemetz1]

what is emilio delgato doing now? better yet where are all the original cast? i know mr. hopper pasted away and bob mcgrath retired but what happened to the other main adult characters,

[Nightmastercool97]

Sesame Street was very educational back in the day.

[jeffkahl]

geez back when pay phones only cost a dime! now they're 50¢ up here in Canada!

[DiAnno13]

Wait until it costs a dollar. That will really be loony.

[OofusTwillip]

Originally, payphone calls cost a nickel. Hence the old expression, "Go ahead. It's your nickel." (in reply to "Can I say something?").

Payphones also originally required you to insert the cost of a call, just to talk to the operator. When you hung up after talking to her, you got the coin back.

In the early 1960s, Nichols & May did their "Telephone" sketch, in which a man tries desperately to get his last dime back after it's been mistakenly swallowed by a pay phone. Brilliantly funny!

[Marbles471]

50? Dang.

Here in NYC they can range from 35 to a buck, at least.

Hey, how did you get the "cent" symbol in there?

[WillWatchAnything]

They just recently removed all the pay phones at the hospital where I work. I don't even know where you can find a pay phone anymore much less in a booth.

[disneyrangerblue02]

Man, that's terrible. I wish there was something we could do.

[Bigben1984]

the booths started disapearing as early as the late 1960's I've seen some booths in Europe but here in the states I've only seen them at the Jersey Turnpike Rest areas

[llcoolmartin]

Whats a pay phone boy I have not seen one since the 80s maby the last time in the 90s

[Marbles471]

What part of the country do you live in?

There are still plenty of payphones around parts of New York City. That's all I can speak for. I'm sure there used to be a lot more, though.

I do wonder how much longer they'll survive. Cell phones have thrown a real wrench into that machine.