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This Week in Startups

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The History of the Phone Booths

The last phone booth of New York, I think last year or two years ago, got taken out. There was a very cool thing at Grand Central Station and like, you know, poor authority bus terminal. They would have a row of phone booths. So this was the modern technology. Like in the 50s and 60s, they were like, hey, phones exist. Let's put 50 of them. And so there was a wall in Grand Central, if the producers are doing their job, they're searching for it. You'd say meet me at the phone booths and you would go to the phone booths. You'd call somebody, I'm here. You'd hang up the

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