The last pay phone in America

A few weeks ago I was walking around the ASU Tempe campus when I spotted this pay phone. I think I might have literally done a double-take since I had thought that pay phones had left with the 90s along with the giga pets and dial tone.

I've walked that stretch of space (close to the fountain, near the Farmer building) hundreds of times and yet I had never noticed it. Then again it seems like I'm always running 3 minutes late to any class in that building so it's possibly that I'm too busy speed walking to class with homework in hand to ever look of the scenery. Anyway I began to nickname it "the last pay phone in America" in my head each time I passed it and inevitably forgot to tell anyone about it once it was out of eyesight.

So imagine my surprise when a week or so after my little discovery that I heard the tail-end of a conversation where a guy was looking for a pay phone and was nearly laughed at by the people he was asking. I knew I had to prove to someone that they still exist so I took a friend of mine one day to check it out. It's out of service by the way, though you can still hear the metal sound a key makes in the earpiece. Pleased by my adventure I began to leave campus when I spotted another one near the Discovery Building! Are they secretly everywhere? Why haven't I noticed this before? Has anyone else?

So if you spot a pay phone anywhere on the Tempe campus or around your area let me know. I'm on a hunt to find as many as possible before the end of the semester.