Phones

Earlier this week I visited Rensselaer Iron & Metal to recycle some cans and other bits of scrap metal. I noticed this old phone booth in the dumpster near their north door.

There are not many of the left. The cell phone has rendered them obsolete, an example of Schumpeter's "perennial gale of creative destruction", the process by which new innovations undercut and destroy old industries and ways of doing things. There is at least one pay phone left in Rensselaer, one by the Shell station on College. You can see it below with the SJC field house and Hanson Recreation Center in the background.

Where else in Rensselaer can you find pay phones?