Payphones Past

Florence Hotel Phone Booths. Missoula, Montana.

13 years ago

Rotary dial phone booths at the Florence Hotel. Missoula, Montana.

Egg-Shaped Payphone Enclosure

13 years ago

Nebraska's Public Service Commission requires that every community in Nebraska have one public pay telephone. That decades-old requirement is now…

Mapping Payphone Complaints

13 years ago

Something existentially useless about a map showing locations of non-working payphones inspired me to create just such a map. It's…

Payphone: Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany. June, 2007

13 years ago

Picture of a payphone in Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany. June, 2007

The CBC Maps Ottawa Payphones

13 years ago

CBC Radio's "All in a Day" follows up on the developing story of a potential 100% increase in the cost…

Bell Canada’s Proposed Rate Hike Raises Hackles From The Internet

13 years ago

Canadians seem to take their payphones pretty seriously based on their online reactions to a proposal from Bell Canada and…

NYC Phone Booth Museum

13 years ago

As if stepping through a time-portal I found myself inside this hall of New York City phone booths. It was…

The Way It Used To Be

13 years ago

Watch as I dial toll-free directory assistance on an unbelievably ancient New York City rotary dial payphone. Video from March,…

Wood Phone Booth, NYC. March, 2012.

13 years ago

I thought sure this old wood booth would have been removed since I last saw it about 2 years ago.

Payphones and Pants, Pants and Payphones

13 years ago

It's a commercial for pants -- Dockers pants -- which contains some nice imagery of abandoned phone booths from around…