Payphones Past

Phone Booth – Short Film

14 years ago

Geet Sharma's short film "Phone Booth" uses a malfunctioning payphone as a metaphor for corruption in India. The film is…

Polivio Payphone: Gone, But Not Forgotten

14 years ago

All that remains of the Polivio Payphone that once stood at 31-08 Astoria Boulevard South is a set of 4…

Greenwood Inn Phone Booth. Greenwood, Delaware. October, 2005.

14 years ago

October, 2005, photo of a highway phone booth outside the Greenwood Inn in Greenwood, Delaware.

AT&T: 100th Anniversary of the Payphone (1989)

14 years ago

Awesome video from 1989, when AT&T celebrated the 100th anniversary of William Gray's public telephone. The text on Techchannel.ATT.com includes…

Metropolitan Opera House Payphone

14 years ago

It was not exactly worth the price of admission, but during the second intermission of the January 24, 2012, performance…

Some Payphone Somewhere

14 years ago

Some picture of some payphone somewhere.

SORRY! Temporarily OUT OF SERVICE

14 years ago

This sticker on a New York City payphone seems helpful enough... Until one notices that the clip art on this…

South Wales: End of the line for public phone boxes?

14 years ago

The South Wales Evening Post carries a jeremiad of sorts on the state of public phone boxes.

Curbside Payphone, Queens

14 years ago

This is my favorite type of payphone: On the curb. Almost on the street. In traffic. This public pay telephone…

Loco Hills, New Mexico

14 years ago

Photo by Daniel Zubiate of a Phone Booth in Loco Hills, New Mexico. January, 2004.