5 x facts about Zoetermeer that suddenly make you feel old

…if you’ve called into a pay phone before.

Okay, it is certainly not Zoetermeers, but it has disappeared from our streets: the telephone booth. The current generation of children is growing up with smartphones, whatsapp, snapchat and so on. They hardly know a landline, let alone a pay phone. But we have good memories of it. Calling home with a guilder in your pocket that you were coming or asking how your grandmother was doing was quite normal.

Telephone box at Ventrum West. Photo: Zoetermeer City Archives

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