Payphones Past

A Consolidated Smart Systems Payphone in Hollywood, 20 Years Ago

5 years ago

A phone owned by an internet service and telephony provider still in business today once stood outside a Hollywood laundromat…

Just What I Was Hoping Not To See: Someone Using a Payphone

5 years ago

A shared public pay telephone must rank among the likeliest conduits for transmitting something like the corona virus. That does…

Portland’s FUTEL Payphone in the Time of Corona

5 years ago

Payphone usage instructions updated for the age of coronavirus. Seen on one of Portland's FUTEL payphones. From the Instagram account…

Hot Dog House Payphone Up For Grabs On eBay

5 years ago

Through browsing data at my old listings of payphone numbers and locations I quickly concluded that this non-working rotary dial…

Payphone Radio Goes Corona

5 years ago

If anything, the virus has accelerated the inevitable move away from using payphones as the sole microphone for Payphone Radio.

Phone Booth at the Harrison Hall Hotel, Ocean City, MD

5 years ago

Daniel Hopsicker's photo of the phone booth at the Harrison Hall Hotel in Ocean City, MD.

Just a Quarter of New York’s Wi-Fi Kiosks Are Up. Guess Where. – The New York Times

5 years ago

had been thinking about canceling my New York Times subscription. This article almost made me do it.

Social Distancing on the Kosciuszko

5 years ago

A return visit to the new Kosciuszko Bridge revealed good news. Emergency call box telephones have been installed, along with…

Payphones at Newark Penn Station

5 years ago

I found more working payphones than expected at Penn Station in Newark, NJ. These pictures are from 2018 but most…

Dude Talking on a Payphone. September, 2014.

5 years ago

From when I was trying to be a serious payphone photographer. 21st Street and 29th Avenue in Astoria.