A Working Pay Phone? Are There Any Near You?

NORTH-CENTRAL, CT — A weird thing happened Sunday while heading into the Big Bunny grocery store in Southbridge, Mass. to grab some last-minute Super Bowl snacks. I actually found a working pay telephone. You heard me right - an actual quarter-taking, dialable pay phone, the likes of which have gone the way of 8-track tapes and powdered wigs.

When I realized this is not 1997, I began wondering if there are any such dinosaurs still in use in Hartford or Tolland counties. The last known pay phones seen by Patch editors in the area were behind the Mobil station on the Silas Deane Highway in Rocky Hill, which has since been removed due to reconstruction work, and inside the foyer of the Stop & Shop Supermarket on Windsorville Road across from Ray Seraphin Ford in Vernon, which disappeared about a year ago.

If you know the whereabouts of any working pay phone in north-central Connecticut, please take a picture of it and email tim.jensen@patch.com, with a note about the location.

Patch editor Chris Dehnel contributed to this story.