Payphones Past

Sybil Gooley: NJ Botanical Garden, Ringwood, NJ

5 years ago

A beauty among beauty, at Ringwood, NJ, this week. https://www.facebook.com/PayphoneProject/posts/1450532201800745

Maine’s Public Interest Payphones

5 years ago

Take a tour of Maine's Public Interest Payphones, deployed at locations throughout the state in the interest of public safety.

917-341-5504 is Now LinkNYC’s CallerID, and Other Observations

5 years ago

Usage stats are no longer published, but you could make the case that LinkNYC during the pandemic has not only…

Payphone Gone. 31st Street and 38th Avenue in Astoria.

5 years ago

An amazing thing about these payphone enclosures is how successfully they cancel out the noise of the above-ground subway, allowing…

How To Use a Phone Booth In This Year of 2020

5 years ago

I spotted this woman talking on her smartphone from within a payphone enclosure. That's how we use payphone enclosures these…

Payphone Scene from “Fools Rush In” (1997)

5 years ago

Salma Hayek makes a somewhat frenzied payphone call in this 1997 romantic comedy. In this brief scene I might have…

Impossible Phone Numbers, and a Payphone Scene Excised From “John Wick 2”

5 years ago

Calling 212-142-8538 won't get you anything useful, but why let that spoil the fun of "John Wick 2"?

Phone Booth on Route 11 in Martinsburg, West Virginia

5 years ago

Frontier branding covered that of Verizon on this phone booth that used to stand near Bowers Street and Winchester Avenue…

Phone Booth Scene From “The Bad News Bears Breaking Training”

5 years ago

A very brief appearance of a phone booth in this 1977 film captures a cultural ritual that used to be…

(415) 669-9997: Remote Payphone, Inverness, California

5 years ago

(415) 669-9997, in Inverness, California, must rank among the most remote payphone locations in the United States. This photo was…