Payphones Past

Adele’s “Hello” Video: It’s All About The Phone Booth

10 years ago

Pundits and techies pounced on the appearance of a flip phone in the video for Adele’s latest song “Hello”, calling…

Athens, Greece. October, 2015.

10 years ago

Man using a payphone -- a "CARDPHONE", to be exact -- in Athens, Greece. October, 2015. Photo by French filmmaker…

Call (425) 347-9966, the Phone Booth in the World’s Biggest Building

10 years ago

Deep within the bowels of the world largest building (the Boeing Everett Factory in Washington) one finds a surprise: An…

61st St. and Roosevelt Ave. Woodside, Queens 718-429-8216 Van Wagner, LLC. Photo by David Moore.

10 years ago

Another phone similar in style to this one (somewhat unusually embedded in a blue wooden box) used to exist nearby…

On eBay: A Statue of Liberty Payphone

10 years ago

This old payphone up for grabs on eBay has a secret that only the Payphone Project’s archive of former payphone…

“Hang Up”, a Payphone Documentary, Now Playing at the Brooklyn Historical Society

10 years ago

"Hang Up" Ugo Massa'a payphone documentary to which I contributed last year, is playing at 3pm every Sunday in October…

Payphone Users of New York: Call the NBC News I-Team

10 years ago

If you see something, know something, or want the NBC I-Team’s squad of gotcha journalists to publicly shame someone who…

Payphone Flashback, 1976: Honesty is the Best Policy

10 years ago

Acting on impulse one day late last summer, young Alfred Higley Jr. proved that honesty still lives. The 12-year-old, who…

Another Abandoned Telestone Payphone

10 years ago

A decrepit old payphone stands miserably outside the Crown Motor Inn, an hourly rates motel on Queens Boulevard in Woodside,…