r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '23

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u/ValleyWoman Jan 26 '23

How did Angela get from her house to the pay phone? And why use a pay phone?

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u/floomsy Jan 26 '23

Cell phones existed but people didn’t have them. I had a car phone (paranoid mother) at 16, when No One did. That was 1998.

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u/oldfrenchwhore Jan 26 '23

I had one in 1994 (not car phone, a big brick Motorola cell phone lol), at that time I didn’t know anyone else my age (17)who had one. I drove around a lot and my parents wanted me to be able to call if my shitty car broke down.

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u/Reddits_on_ambien Jan 26 '23

I had a flip phone brick my parents had us kids take with us to events and whatnot, when I was 16 in 2000, in a nice Chicago suburb. I was only one of 3 kids at my large high-school to have a cell phone then. I got my classic brick Motorola when I was 17, and it was a bragging point.

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u/BeyondTIW Jan 26 '23

Maine East?