Payphones Past

I Hate When This Happens

16 years ago

An anonymous correspondent writes:When I saw the telephone icon sign from a block away, I thought I'd get to take…

Rockefeller Center Phone Booths

16 years ago

Here is a picture I took in March, 2007, from inside one of the phone booths in the basement of…

Nablus, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories.

16 years ago

An anonymous correspondent writes:"The exponential increase of cell phones, even in the ancient town of Nablus, is likely the reason…

Faces of Payphones

16 years ago

I see a face crying out from the basin of this gutted payphone. This face has its mouth opened wide,…

New Jersey Turnpike Phone Booths

16 years ago

This is a really cool then-and-now sequence of pictures showing a set of phone booths on the New Jersey Turnpike.…

Carl R. Sohncke Square Payphone

16 years ago

One of the more unusual outdoor payphone enclosures I've seen in these parts is this Verizon payphone at Carl R.…

Old Bell Seal Sign

16 years ago

Here is something I have not seen in a long time. In fact I don't think I have ever seen…

A Subway Payphone, 9½ Years Later

16 years ago

This before-and-after sequence spans 9½ years, and shows a payphone at the 36th Avenue/Washington Avenue subway station in Astoria. The…

What’s On Top?

16 years ago

This pagoda-topped payphone in Chinatown reminded me of a series of pictures sent to The Payphone Project many years ago.…

A Christmas Payphone

17 years ago

This TCC Teleplex payphone is, for the season, nestled among some Christmas trees on Broadway in Astoria. The number for…