It was not exactly worth the price of admission, but during the second intermission of the January 24, 2012, performance of “Tosca” at the Metropolitan Opera House I headed down to the concourse level to find a payphone. I expected to find the payphone. Its existence was mentioned and more-or-less confirmed in the “Facilities and Services” section of the Playbill.

I did not expect to find phone books. I did not expect to find copies of the Manhattan White Pages and Yellow Pages stuffed into both sides of the payphone.

Alas, the phone books were from 2008, making them 4 years out of date. Maybe that indicates how long it has been since anyone used this phone!

(Sorry the first one is blurry. I’ll try again for a cleaner shot.)