A man from Minnesota hoped to offer his neighbors a “blast from the past” by installing a fully functioning payphone in his front yard.
The novelty not only served the purpose of making unsuspecting bystanders smile; it also saved the day for one lost little boy, who dialed 911 on the old push-button public phone and found a way home.
Andover native Brian Davis, 48, said he was impelled to install the archaic device for a “little bit of fun,” to “just remind people what life was like before we were all on our cellphones.”
“It was just kind of a bucket list thing that I always kind of wanted to do,” Davis told The Epoch Times. “I was just kind of bored one day and I just started googling.”
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