Were there car phones in 1983?

Not like you know them today, but yes car phones did exist mostly owned by the very wealthy.

There was even a car phone in a episode of The Andy Griffith show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAOwgRMaGZ4 That means they at least go as far back as the 60's..


"Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"

Car phones were more popular and numerous than the mobile type by far in the 80s. And they have a much longer history that you have assumed.






'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings.

They even had a car phone in the original "Sabrina". Bogie called his office from the limo on the way into Manhattan.

Car phones have been around since the 40s--mind you, those were monster devices, very expensive, and with very low capacity [ie only a small number of people could have them before the local carrying capacity was maxed out].

They didn't become popular until the 70s, and hit mainstream in the 80s. Too bad, they were quickly overpowered by cellphones, and then the mobile phone boom of the 90s took care of both of those.

I can remember scenes from "Beginning of the End" from 1957 in which the reporter lady called her editor or someone from her car phone. It looked pretty much like they had taken a home rotary phone (roughly the size and weight of a square yard block of concrete) and stuck it in the car as a prop. The concept was there and sound though...









"A naked American man stole my balloons!"
"Whaaa-aaat?"

Like everyone has said, yes, they existed. Would a street level pimp in Alaska have one? No, probably not. I wouldn't be shocked if there wasn't service accessible in Alaska, period, during that time.

There also probably not any strippers in Alaska with tramp stamps and thongs in 1983-84, either. Neither of those really became common for another 10 years almost.

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