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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #140 on: April 07, 2016, 04:41:03 PM »
Paying for the Holland Tunnel toll with Canadian Dollars for arbitrage (Oh and the toll was $2 back then).
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #141 on: April 07, 2016, 04:50:38 PM »
IIANM my first one was this one

you remember that helicopter shooting game? :)
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #142 on: April 07, 2016, 04:56:17 PM »
you remember that helicopter shooting game? :)
Can't recall right now, maybe if I see a picture.
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #143 on: April 07, 2016, 05:02:34 PM »
When a slice of pizza was 25 cents, a pay phone was 10 cents, and a house in Boro Park for $35,000 was considered way too expensive. Hold on, no, that was just a Dr. Middos tape.
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #144 on: April 07, 2016, 05:08:30 PM »
I'm not sure what method other people were referring to above regarding free calls on a payphone but our method was to place a collect call. You had about 2 seconds to record your name and in that two seconds you would say a la aseres bnei haman "pick-me-up-in-ten-minutes-in-front-of-the-library-please!"

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #145 on: April 07, 2016, 05:11:51 PM »
I'm not sure what method other people were referring to above regarding free calls on a payphone but our method was to place a collect call. You had about 2 seconds to record your name and in that two seconds you would say a la aseres bnei haman "pick-me-up-in-ten-minutes-in-front-of-the-library-please!"
Didn't work on those occasions when you bumped into a live operator.

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #146 on: April 07, 2016, 05:13:32 PM »
...when there was no need to carry quarters for payphones. Tell Me did the call for free...  :D
Yups
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #147 on: April 07, 2016, 05:17:00 PM »
If my father were on these forums, he'd tell you about another method of placing calls for free, one that's before just about anyone here's time: phreaking. GIYF.

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #148 on: April 07, 2016, 05:19:16 PM »
If my father were on these forums, he'd tell you about another method of placing calls for free, one that's before just about anyone here's time: phreaking. GIYF.
There was a method by drilling a hole in a quarter and letting it down with a string. It was able to be pulled back up if you knew exactly at which moment you had to give the tug.

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #149 on: April 07, 2016, 05:23:21 PM »
There was a method by drilling a hole in a quarter and letting it down with a string. It was able to be pulled back up if you knew exactly at which moment you had to give the tug.
He did that in his youth too, though with soda machines, not pay phones. I even found one of his drilled quarters once when I was a kid.

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #150 on: April 07, 2016, 05:25:50 PM »
Didn't work on those occasions when you bumped into a live operator.

Then we used the Person-to-Person collect call method, for example: "Operator, I would like to place a person to person collect call from Mr. Ruf Mir to Mr. Leben Zal", or just a person to person call, which would be declined as the "person" is not there, and the operator would kindly leave a message for such person to call back the number when he or she comes in.
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #151 on: April 07, 2016, 05:26:37 PM »
We should take a poll how many of the people reminiscing here about the olden days are over 30. 🙈
You can't tell by what people are writing?
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #152 on: April 07, 2016, 05:29:35 PM »
Anyone else here used to take their Tzedakah pennies to school in old film canisters?
One of my kids' Morahs has a collection of old film canisters which she gives to each kid at the beginning of the year for them to bring their tzedaka
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #153 on: April 07, 2016, 05:34:26 PM »
you remember that helicopter shooting game? :)

so many hours...

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #154 on: April 07, 2016, 08:58:59 PM »
Looking for a gas station where you could ask directions.
Or getting lost in a bad neighborhood and debating if the gas station was safe enough (it wasnt)
So can you still write like this without referring back to the card?
 
Oh wow bringing back memories
I'm not sure what method other people were referring to above regarding free calls on a payphone but our method was to place a collect call. You had about 2 seconds to record your name and in that two seconds you would say a la aseres bnei haman "pick-me-up-in-ten-minutes-in-front-of-the-library-please!"
Was going to say this one. + waiting on line in camp to make those collect calls home

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #155 on: April 07, 2016, 09:29:03 PM »
you remember that helicopter shooting game? :)
How about SF Cave?

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #156 on: April 07, 2016, 09:32:47 PM »
How about SF Cave?
I had to google it because i didnt remember what your talking about  but sure i recognized it
At least now we have Google lol
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #157 on: April 07, 2016, 09:38:01 PM »
Oh the hours wasted on Tetris and SF Cave...
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #158 on: April 07, 2016, 09:46:27 PM »
Oh the hours wasted on Tetris and SF Cave...
i still play tetris :-) the only thing I hateis that now there are so many variations
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Re: I Remember When...
« Reply #159 on: April 07, 2016, 09:53:19 PM »
And this:
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