Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[DCAKen]

3/10/21 payphone

This needed the extra sign “Yes, this payphone works”

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[Kbikeva]

3/10/21 Payphone

This made me laugh. In 2017 I biked with a group from San Francisco to Santa Fe, NM. At the top of one of the mountain passes at a rest stop there was a full booth pay phone. Those of us over 50 got into a discussion about how we used to make collect calls from payphones to our homes, our parents would refuse the call, and then we’d hang up — having notified our parents we were ready for them to come pick us up from the (movies, bowling alley, etc.) The 20-somethings riding with us were aghast, never having heard of collect calls or even really used a ‘tethered’ or pay phone. It was hilarious to watch them try to wrap their minds around the concept of a time when people didn’t have a phone in their pocket. And that phone booth on top of the mountain even had a dial tone — another thing we had to explain.

This is Gravelly Point – thanks Serdar!

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[AlanA]

3/10/21 – Cell Phone Store OR Wired Phone OR Pay Phone (read details for breakdown)

I did look for a pay phone at a few gas station/quckie marts, but no such luck. I’ll have to settle for a sleaze point, which I got right at the end of my ride in the shopping center across the street.

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[LisaE]

@drevil 209463 wrote:

3/10/21 – Cell Phone Store OR Wired Phone OR Pay Phone (read details for breakdown)

I found the carcasses of two decommissioned pay phones and didn’t want to go into a business to say, “hey, can I take a picture of your wired business phone?” So I settled for this store that sells both cell phones and cell phone service.

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[Steve O]

3/10 pay phone (3 pts)

Double! (6 points?)

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[Mtansill]

@drevil 209463 wrote:

3/10/21 – Cell Phone Store OR Wired Phone OR Pay Phone (read details for breakdown)

A pay phone!

I did the research this morning before heading to work and saw that there were some nearby gas stations that might still have a pay phone. Also, interestingly, the Goddard Space Flight Center visitor center. I thought about getting the latter even though I wasn’t too thrilled with the route, but happily I found the pay phone at a convenience store not far from my house. Just happened to be there… it wasn’t one of the ones from the list that I was going to target.

I still checked those other places out of curiosity, and there weren’t any pay phones! So intuition paid off…
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[LeftyLaura]

3/10/21-Phone Party

I desperately need the 2 points. This is a wireless landline @GreenLizardCycling. If it must be hard wired from wall to earpiece, please allow the backup store shot. Too bad I can’t use it for the coffee snob ride as I’ve already done so. Do I sound earnestly pathetic?

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[LhasaCM]

3/10 – Phone

Nearby a wired pay phone that seemingly still works, except for the pesky “someone stole the handset” issue, here is a Boost Mobile retailer.

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[tomacsh]

3/10/21–Wired Phone

This phone makes Bird Calls. Literally. I thought it was a joke until I checked it out myself (a few years ago; not sure how long it’s existed as an art piece). Dial a number to hear the song of a native Mid Atlantic bird. Brought to you by the lovely creative Village of Takoma Park; corner of Erie and Flower Avenues. See my cross-post to #PublicArtFinder for more pix!

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[bigredboiler]

3/10/21 – Pay Phone

These things are definitely not easy to find anymore.
Thankfully, I lucked out…found two actually. I like this one best, since you can literally see the wire in the handset. It’s barely hanging in there.

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[Boomer Cycles]

3-10-21: Wired (Pay?) Phone

I went to over a dozen sites in the Falls Church/Fairfax area that allegedly had pay phones at some point, according to 2 antiquated public phone locator databases, but no longer do. I’m convinced that they are extinct in NOVA suburbia. The closest I came was this gutted shell with protruding wires at a local 7-11 store. I hope that it will earn partial credit. I past a gazillion mobile phone shops, but that seemed too easy, and I was stubbornly committed to the pay phone mission … por nada [emoji1361]!

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 209463 wrote:

3/10/21 – Cell Phone Store OR Wired Phone OR Pay Phone (read details for breakdown)

For 2 points – take a picture of a wired phone (caveat, it can’t be your own phone or at your own home)

There should be payphones at the airport. Getting to Reagan National Airport by bicycle is not easy and bike parking is at the very end of the garage in a remote area. Inside the terminal, I asked a group of TSA workers for a payphone and got puzzled looks. After explaining the daily scavenger hunt saga with all the rules and points, they gave me more puzzled looks. They suggested there may be a bank of phones by baggage pickup, but said no, they have been replaced with charging stations, but wait, there might be one payphone left.
The one phone left is a house phone, but it is wired – 2 points.
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[camiller]

3/20/2021 Phone

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[komorebi]

@drevil 209463 wrote:

3/10/21 – Cell Phone Store OR Wired Phone OR Pay Phone (read details for breakdown)

3/10/21 — a cell phone store was the best I could muster, alas:

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[Serdar]

@drevil 209463 wrote:

3/10/21 – Cell Phone Store OR Wired Phone OR Pay Phone (read details for breakdown)

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Pay phone at Gravelly Point
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