always here…
Yeah, asimonim was already the NEXT generation of Israeli phone “technology”.
Do you remember young people used to wear them around their neck on a string or chain as a “necklace”? – that, or a 9mm Uzi bullet!
In New York, pay phones used to be a dime for a call, and then went, in one shot, to 25 cents! Now of course, with everyone having cell phones, you can hardly find a pay phone at all (especially one that works!)