Payphones Past

Payphones of 125th Street, New Years Day

5 years ago

In which I spotted something I have never seen in the wild before: A payphone TTY keyboard rolled out and,…

In Search of the Elusive PTS Phone Booths at 347 Madison Avenue

5 years ago

Four pristine phone booths and a wall-mounted TTY, with now-non-working Pacific Telemanagement Services (PTS) payphones, inhabit the lobby of 347…

You All Have Covid

5 years ago

Found on a Harlem payphone today.

Some Midtown East Payphones Documented, and One For My Personal Scrapbook

5 years ago

This tour, from yesterday, includes yet more discussion about PRAY and shots of some surviving PRAYphones. I hope I don't…

Payphone Scenes from “Airport” (1970)

5 years ago

A couple of scenes from the 1970 film "Airport", showing how many phone booths there used to be at the…

Blizzard Payphone, Before and After People Started Using It Again

5 years ago

People still use payphones. But we knew that already, didn't we?

Payphone Video: West 4th Street is Back in Business, and Some Notes from Midtown

5 years ago

I earned a small jackpot after hanging up the Rockefeller Center payphone last week. What I don't understand is why…

Payphone Scene from “Blue Thunder”

5 years ago

In this brief payphone scene Frank Murphy, played by Roy Scheider, remotely accesses his answering machine messages in a way…

Payphones on YouTube

5 years ago

My newly active YouTube channel caught the attention of some folks at PTS, who have been making fixes to non-working…

Payphones of Beckley, West Virginia. Photos by Daniel Hopsicker.

5 years ago

In this month of December, in this crazy year of 2020, the town of Beckley, West Virginia, has at least…