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"You can make a local 10 cent call for You can make a long distance call
2 cents by spitting on the pennies and and charge it to a phone number.
dropping them in the nickel s lot . As Simply tell the operator you want
soon as they are about to hit the trig- to bill the call to your home phone
ger mechanism, bang the coin- return because you don' t have the correct
button. Another way is to spin the pen- change. Tell her there is no one
nies counter-clockwise into the nickel there now to ver~fy the call, but
slot. Hold the penny in the slot w~th you will be home in an hour and she
your finger and snap it spinning with can call you then if there is any
a key or other flat obj ect. Both sys- quest~on. Make sure the exchange
tems take a cortain knack, but once (prefix)goes with the area you say
you've perfected it, you'11 always it does.
have it in your survival kit. You can make all the free long
If two cents is too much9 how about distance calls you want by calling
a call for 1 penny? Cut a 1/4 strip your party collect at a pay phone.
off the telephone book cover. Insert Just ha~re your friend go to a pre-
the cardboard strip into the dime slot arranged phone booth at a prearran-
as far as it will go. Drop a penny 1n ged time. This can be done on the
the nickel slot until ~t catches 1n thespot by ha~in,g the friend call yoTa
mechanism (spinning wi 11 help) . Then person to person. Say you 1 re not
slowly pull the strip out until you in, but ask for the number calling
hear the dial tone.you since you'11 be "back" in 5
A number 14 brass washer w~th am~nutes . Once you get the nunber,
small piece of scotch tape over one s~mply hang up, wa't a moment and
side of the hole will not only getcall back your fr~end collect. The
a free call, but works in about any call has to be out of the state to
vending machine that takes dimes.work, s~nce operators are familiar
You can get a box of thousands forwith the special extens~on numbers
about ~ dollar at any hardware store. asSigned to pay phones for her ares
You should always have a box around and possibly for nearby areas as
for phones, laundromats, parking meters well If she asks you if it ~s a p~y
and dr ink mach~nes . phone say no . I f she f inds out during
Bend a bobby pin after removing the the callllwhich rarely happens) and
plastic from the tips and jab it down ~nforms you of this, slmply say you
into the transmitter(mouthpiece). When didn t expect the party to have a
it presses aga~nst the metal diaphragm,PaY phone in his house and accept the
rub it on a metal wall or pipe to groun~hargeS. We haYe neYer heard of this
it. When you've made contact you hear
the dial tone.
Put a dime in the phone, dial the
operator and tell her you have ten
cents credit. She'll return your dime
and get your call for free. If she
asks why, say you made a call on ano-
ther phone, lost the money, and the
operator told you to switch phones
and cal 1 the cred i t operator .
This same method works f or long
d~stance calls. Call the operator
and find out the rate for your call.
Hang up and cal 1 another operator
telling her you just dialed San
Francisco direct., gat ~ wrong number
and lost $.95 or whatever it is. She
wi 1 1 ,get your ca 1 1 f ree of cha~ge .
1~92 1
happen'ng thongh .
If there are two pay phones next
to each other, you can call long
distance on one and put the coins in
the other. When the operator cuts in
and asks you to deposit money, drop
the coins in-to the one you are not
using, but hold the receiver up to
the slots so the operator can hear
the bells ring. When youtve f~nishod,
you can S ~mply press the return but-
ton on the phone With the coins in
i t and ou t t}~ey come . ~ f vou have
a good tape recorder (cassete) you can
record the sounds of a quar t-er, d ~me
and nickel gc~ing into a pa-y phone an`1
play them when tlie operator asks you
for the money. Turn t:he volume up as
lo~d as yor~ can get.