Rotary phones, eight-track cartridge music systems and telephone booths are relics, relegated to a museum exhibit. Alas, drive-in movie theaters are hurtling into a similar oblivion.
“I’ve seen a phone-booth in a museum in Kentucky, in their children’s section,” college student Mary said.
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