Payphones Past

AP: Pay phones’ disappearance angers some

20 years ago

SeattlePI.com reports: "In the late 1970s and early '80s, the phones became increasingly unpopular with  community boards and local officials…

Nevada’s “Loneliest Road” has become even lonelier

20 years ago

Abby Johnson describes how SBC/AT&T's removal of unprofitable public phones in rural Nevada has created public safety concerns, stranding some…

Fox News: Pay Phones Suffer As Cell Phone Use Rises

20 years ago

FoxNews.com reports: "A stroll along Ninth Avenue in Manhattan reveals an ugly picture of the state of the pay phone…

Brother, can you spare a quarter?

20 years ago

I get quoted at far greater length than I deserve in this nice story about the potential removal of a…

Daytona Beach News: The Lost Jobs

20 years ago

The pay-phone maintenance man is cited as an example of a job that will eventually disappear. The maintenance man quoted…

The Mailbox Project? US Mailbox Location Data Released

20 years ago

Update, 9/26/2006 Of interest to Payphone Project readers -- and of interest to all who believe public information should be…

APCC Services Files Complaints Against 25 Carriers

20 years ago

The American Public Communications Council (APCC) is targeting carriers who fail to pay compensation to payphone providers for coinless payphone…

Are there any phone booths left in Pittsburgh?

20 years ago

Kim Lyons finds a handful of phone booths in Pittsburgh, illustrating how Superman would likely be out of luck should…

Verizon to end its Airfone service

20 years ago

The Airfone, owned by Verizon, is essentially an extremely expensive in-flight payphone. I remember using one of these phones to…

Lacking payphones, Indiana chaplain starts cell phone ministry

20 years ago

"There's one pay phone at the crossroads near the docks the men can walk to. The men are there all…