In The 1950s, Groups Of College Students Tried To Cram Themselves Into Phone Booths

10/03/2025 3 min Temporada 7 Episodio 1416

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Episode Synopsis

It's National Landline Telephone Day. In the landline era, if you were out in the world and needed to call someone, you usually had to find a phone booth to do it - and at one time, college students tried to cram themselves into those booths by the dozens. Plus: the story of a stray cat who decided to start dropping flowers off at a lady's front door. Cramming People Into A Thing: A Photo History (Mental Floss)Thoughtful Pregnant Stray Cat Brought Pink Flowers to a Woman’s Door Who Then Let Her Inside to Give Birth (Laughing Squid)There’s plenty of room for backers on our Patreon page, no one will feel crammed!

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