A MoneyGram for Batman

Stopping into my local CVS over the holidays, I saw the following set up for sending money.

The whole concept of using a public phone of any kind to send money seems so 1980s, or at least in 1980s in the USA. The cheesy display, the 1985-era telephone and the shocking price — you can send $50.00 for $5.00 — made me very suspect of the whole set up.

And doesn’t the red phone look like a slightly modernized Batphone?

5 comments

  1. Modernized? We have phones you can put in your pocket that have more power than a super computer from the era that phone was used? Is it modernized simply because it doesn’t have a rotery dial?

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