Payphones Past

Shroud of a Link: Citybridge Meets Its Deadline. Sort Of.

10 years ago

This mysteriously shrouded rectangle is all we get to see for now of the first Links, the free WiFi hotspots…

“The Payphone Millionaire” – A Short Film With a Seasonal Message.

10 years ago

This seasonally tinctured film from IYOBOSA STUDIOS tells the story of "Laura from the Bronx", who answers a ringing payphone…

The Bronx Zoo Goes Payphone Free

10 years ago

Signs throughout the Bronx Zoo promise its visitors public telephones in a number of locations. Lies, all of them. There are no…

Christmas Through a Payphone: “O Holy Night”

10 years ago

Whenever I hear a subway busker or street musician performing I look for the nearest payphone. If one is nearby,…

“Hang Up”, a Payphone Documentary, Is Public

10 years ago

"Hang Up", the New York City payphone documentary to which I contributed, is now viewable on the public Internet for the…

Payphones on the American Landscape: Josef Hoflehner, Photographer

10 years ago

Josef Hoflehner's photo, taken this calendar year, shows a living, breathing, dial-tone-enabled payphone on a snow-caked boardwalk of Lake Erie,…

The Missing Links: What Will They Really Look Like?

10 years ago

Let me be the first to say it: Citybridge's Link devices look pretty flippin' ugly. Thousands of these hulkish, intrusive…

On eBay: A Payphone From the Donut Shack in Lexington, Kentucky

10 years ago

Data from The Payphone Project connects a rare green-colored 3-slot payphone made by the Automatic Electric Company to a place…

NYC Nostalgia: 1980s Payphone Caller

10 years ago

A charming photo from the NYC nostalgia blog in which a 1980s payphone user partly obscures a sign for the…

“Mark Thomas Knows Pay Phones.”

10 years ago

Mark Dent at BillyPenn.com penned a nicely done piece on the surprising quantity of payphones actively in service in Philadelphia.…