Payphones Past

Winter Garden Payphones

17 years ago

Of the three payphones seen in these photos from August 19, 2000 two survive today but only one still works.…

Payphones at Krash, Now Called Riviera

17 years ago

This picture from March, 2000, shows two payphones outside the Krash Dance Club in Astoria. Krash was a popular gay…

Remains of an UnderDog Payphone

17 years ago

A battered and bedraggled payphone is not a pretty sight. Insult adds to injury when the commercial face of a…

Vestiges of Payphone Brands Past

17 years ago

Last year at about this time I commented on a New York Times blog entry that called out a "Phantom…

Italic Payphone

17 years ago

I stood perfectly upright when I took this picture. The payphone enclosure was italic, tilted, skewed, and visibly hung over.…

Telebeam: Off the Hook and Off the Grid

17 years ago

Telebeam payphones are disappearing from the sidewalks of New York at a rapid clip. In recent days this Telebeam payphone…

Outside Titan Foods, 31st Street in Astoria

17 years ago

This gutted out ghost of a payphone past has looked like this for over a year. Some might call this…

Shattered and Dangling: A Verizon Payphone, October 2009

17 years ago

I spotted this Verizon payphone about a month ago, and was surprised to see that it is still busted up,…

Payphone Gone: By a 9/11 Mural

17 years ago

The 9/11 Payphone (as I called it) actually had nothing to do with 9/11. Located in Long Island City, this…

The most deserted phone booth in the world…

17 years ago

Raynard Bagley sends this interesting photo, showing a phone booth in the North of Belgium. This old booth is steadily…