Payphones Past

“A Relic of the Past!”

“A Relic of the Past!”

A woman yelled those words when she saw me taking pictures of these empty hulls of 9th Avenue payphones.

Was she referring to the payphone, or to the nuclear family marching past?

Maybe I should have asked.

A Relic of the Past
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