What year did phone calls go from a dime to a quarter?

Question

What year did phone calls go from a dime to a quarter?

Answer 1

i think it was in the 70's. have you tried to find one lately?

Answer 2

19 73

Answer 3

Its 50 cents where I live! d**n it!

Answer 4

In Orlando, it was September of 1977.  There was little fanfare made in the press, but suddenly a dime didn't work anymore!  It took several days to discover the plate on the phone said "Deposit $0.25"  Actually, it said 25 cents, but my keyboard doesn't have a cent marker.  ;-)

Answer 5

I think it was 1977. Funny to, as one could see it about to happen. Not a year or two earlier, the news agencies brought up that a cup of coffee was still ten cents at most coffee shops them bam, the price went up. Just a year or two later they did a report again on the news about it cost a dime to use a phone still. I was in the TV lounge on a US Naval station at the time when it was on the news. Those of us in there looked at each other and shared the thought that it would be going up soon now that it made the news. Not a month later, bam, it happened. Come to think of it, that was also about the same time the government busted up ATT (yes, they really did, said it was too big and powerful.) But don't worry, just because some congressmen are now talking about taking over the refineries, that doesn't mean the price of gas is going up even more. Or does it? Watch out people!!!!!   BAM!

Answer 6

It varied by state. Texas was 1979, New York was 1984, Indiana was 1988. The last four states to go to a quarter were Arkansas, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, which all went in 1997.

Don't know the years for all the other states (California was before 1987), but Canada was around 1981.