Payphones Past

Payphone Users Revisited

13 years ago

Do Payphones Still Exist? Do People Still Use Payphones? Yes, and Yes.

Minerva Cuevas: “Free calls”.

13 years ago

"The free pay phone is a powerful piece, the equivalent of an art-world bomb aimed at the web of private…

New Public Telephones. Bell Telephone System, 1960

13 years ago

This 1960 advertisement, directed at city planners, promotes three models of public telephone offered by Bell Telephone System at the…

(212) 246-9617. 57th Street N/Q/R Subway Station, South End.

13 years ago

Re-touched picture of a payphone at a midtown N/Q/R subway station. Look for more pictures of New York City payphones,…

NYC: Free Wi-Fi. Why? Fie!

13 years ago

The recent announcement that a small number of the New York City's payphone enclosures had been crowned with Wi-Fi antennæ…

Weburbanist: 20 Abandoned Payphones

13 years ago

Weburbanist borrows a few pictures from the Payphone Project and other sources in this showcase of abandoned payphones.

(212) 599-9801, Across from the United Nations

13 years ago

Here is a payphone number and location I wish I had posted a long time ago. Evidently this payphone was…

Penn Station: Payphone Ghetto

13 years ago

This looks like an image from an earlier generation. The harried businessman, travelling through New York, rushes to a payphone…

(212) 239-1242

13 years ago

Manhattan payphone with phone number hand-written on its face: (212) 239-1242

Who Called Me From (702) 992-9550?

13 years ago

I didn't do it. But if someone appears to have called you from (702) 992-9550 in Las Vegas, Nevada, then…