Payphones Past

Telkom Indonesia Payphone. Maxime Massa. Summer, 2015.

10 years ago

Yesterday’s “European Payphone Chase” featured photos from film director Ugo Massa and others who have discovered that payphones are hiding…

On eBay: Automatic Electric 3-Slot Rotary Payphone

10 years ago

The phone number shown on this Automatic Electric unit does not appear in the Payphone Project’s archive of Wisconsin payphone…

European Payphone Chase

10 years ago

Anyone who knows me much at all finds themselves afflicted by a strange condition in which they start seeing payphones…

Phone Booth of Mauritania

10 years ago

From the midst of Mitchell Kanashkevich’s stupendous photo essay Mauritania, the Most Amazing Place You’ll Probably Never Visit rises an…

On eBay: 1961 Northern Electric NE-233QA Rotary Pay Phone

10 years ago

The 716 area code printed on the placard indicates this phone was used somewhere in western New York. The phone…

Abandoned Verizon Payphones at 77 Water Street

10 years ago

Phones like this stay in place for years, not even attracting the interest of thieves. An abandoned Verizon payphone (should…

Payphones of Philadelphia. August, 2015.

10 years ago

Philadelphia, a city of two million, has a fair share of payphones on its city streets, at least in the…

Citybridge Rising: The Missing Links

10 years ago

Citybridge, the consortium of telecom and advertising companies awarded a monopoly franchise to replace New York City's outdoor public pay…

Is Seamless Targeting Payphone Users?

10 years ago

The advertising folks at Seamless, the online food delivery service, appear to be using one of their current ad campaigns…