Payphones Past

Hill Street Blues: The World Is Full Of Payphones

9 years ago

Another installment in a potentially endless series of pictures and video clips featuring public pay telephones from when they were…

A Payphone Scene From “Taxi”, Season 1, Episode 1 (1978)

9 years ago

The first ever episode of "Taxi" (1978) revolves around a magical payphone that allows for free calls anywhere in the…

The Modern Phone Booth. Flickr Photographer Darryl Smith.

9 years ago

Cell phone users take cover in phone booths once reserved for public pay telephone customers. From Flickr photographer Darryl Smith.

Happy New Year From The Payphone Project

9 years ago

It was a rough holiday week around here. The Payphone Project and all my other web sites got knocked offline,…

A Rockefeller Center Payphone User Revisited

9 years ago

A strange and what seemed at first to be an eerie coincidence occurred on Twitter the other night.

This “Free Wi-Fi Payphone” is a Portal to Nowhere.

9 years ago

Phantom vestiges of a 2012 program to equip NYC's payphones with free WiFi still linger on city streets.

Christmas Music Heard Through a Steinway Street Payphone

9 years ago

I fed $3.75 into a Steinway Street payphone to record the Christmas music played over loudspeakers on that venue. Some…

Those new outdoor phone booths are so doggone handy …

9 years ago

The advertisement below appeared in the August 6, 1957, edition the Panama City News-Herald. It appeared in numerous publications nationwide.…

Putting the “UG” in UGLY. LinkNYC Begins its Raid of Woodside, Queens.

9 years ago

Uglyass LinkNYC Monoliths Are Uglifying the Already Non-Beautiful Stretch of Queens Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.