Payphones Past

Alaska: Phone Booth Near the Wrangell Seaplane Base

Mark Cotton saw The Payphone Project on CBS Sunday Morning and sent over this photo from May 2016. It is in Wrangell, Alaska, near the Wrangell Seaplane Base. It is, to be sure, a phone booth. But the payphone that presumably once inhabited this structure is gone, replaced by what appears to be a standard house phone. Gotta love the old GTE logo.

I have several older pictures of Alaska payphones, some from as far back as 2000, in the Payphone Project Alaska Photo Gallery.

 

Wrangell Seaplane Base, Alaska. Photo by Mark Cotton.
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