![]() ![]() “I thought it would be a fun project,” said Rutledge, a tinkerer who constructed a remote candy chute to deliver Halloween goodies during COVID and keeps a vehicle in the garage that looks like a big cupcake. Jokes like these are a hit with the kindergarteners at Lafayette, which is probably why substitute kindergarten teacher Don Rutledge created and installed the Joke Pay Phone in front of his house near the school. “Here we go, need a joke, dial Star 1,” his dad Justin explained and sure enough a voice came on “Knock knock,” “Who’s there?” “Lee,” “Lee who?” “I’m Lone-Lee without you, please let me in.” “OK, it says dial the number…I’m not sure what these numbers are here, press 1 for a knock-knock joke,” said Calvin Dillon, 13, an 8th grader at The Heights School of Potomac, as he experimented with the unusual device, with his dad nearby. ![]() Instead of P-H-O-N-E, the blue sign on this apparatus says J-O-K-E. Just like the old phones, it has a hard-plastic handset with a coiled metal cable attached at the bottom of the mouthpiece.īut wait, there’s something different about this pay phone, which popped up earlier this year on Northampton Street NW. Near Lafayette Elementary School in D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood, there’s an old-fashioned chrome and black steel telephone on a pole. But someone has figured a way to repurpose an old pay phone to dial up some smiles. Print.Ĭoin-operated pay telephones, once ubiquitous, in places ranging from gas stations to drug stores to street corners, have vanished from the landscape. Business & Finance Click to expand menu. ![]()
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