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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 .
    
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    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.
    
    