Novelty of the Previously Ordinary

A Payphone at Little Whale Cove and it actually works

Yesterday while at the beach we stopped at Little Whale Cove.  It is a gated housing type development where my grandma has a lot. No house just a lot. But that gives her access to the amenities which includes the clubhouse.  Attached to the outer wall of that clubhouse was this very rare piece of machinary, the payphone.

It is amazing how as some technologies rise things that used to be commonplace become rare again.   I guess that is the cycle of the technological life.  First something is new, advanced, and rare.  Then it begins to gain in popularity it begins to sprout up more and more places until it is ubiquitous.  Eventually the technology develops and as the new items are on the rise the older ones become more obsolete.  Eventually the technology that was once everywhere is a rarity and becomes a novelty when found.  Kind of a typical life cycle for better or worse.