A Good Call In 1976 Alfred spent a day at the pool He was 12 years old When Alfred was ready to go home he called his mom to pick him up Cell phones had not been invented yet So Alfred used a pay phone Before cell phones people used pay phones when away from home 5 Chapter 1
Pay phones let people make calls from public places People paid with coins Then they could talk for a certain number of minutes Alfred put a dime into the pay phone’s slot He dialed his home’s phone number No one answered So Alfred hung up He pushed a Fun Fact The first pay phone appeared in 1889 It stood on a street corner in Hartford Connecticut 6
In the United Kingdom pay phones are often placed inside red booths lever to get his dime back Then he tried calling again Later he returned home 7
