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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Hartford Pay Phone Contest: Pay Phone #20

Pay phone #20 is located on Capen St just feet from where a Smoker's Depot was held and an employee was shot up earlier this week. The store behind #20 could not possibly be more interesting. While billed as a variety store, the promise of hot dogs, sausages, soda billiards and video games make it sounds more like a teenage arcade heaven. It is puzzling though why the front has a trio of chairs that look like they may have been purchased the same time Aerosmith was first becoming popular. It took no more then 3 minutes of being in the neighborhood before a car rolled by and serenaded me with calls of "Yo Yo Yo!" Feel free to imagine for yourself what that might have been about.

3 comments:

  1. Does that phone instantly call 911 when you pick it up? If not it probably should.

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  2. Did you read the article in todays advocate (Hartford is dead city #3)? The last girl moaning that Hartford is for "caucasians". IS SHE SERIOUS ? The city is 90% black and hispanic. I am old enough to remember when Hartford had class, and a nice racial mix. Bigots like her got their wish, a city where minorities are free to terrorize/kill each other. Hartford is Democrat Heaven, but it is everyone else's Hell. Glad I moved to West Hartford.

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  3. Anonymous, please save the racist rants West Hartford town council meetings and the comments section of any courant.com story.

    - J

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