Payphones Past

The Saw Lady Heard Through a Payphone

10 years ago

The Payphone Project caught up with Natalia Paruz, the New York City street musician known as The Saw Lady, as…

Big Four Ice Caves: The Payphone Connection

10 years ago

Last week's story about a fatal collapse at the Big Four Ice Caves nearĀ Verlot, Washington, includes an interesting payphone-related footnote…

1987: New York City Payphone Users

10 years ago

This photo of two random New Yorkers carrying on unrelated conversations within spitting distance of each other using New York…

The Sid Tuchman Mystery Solved, 25 Years Later.

10 years ago

Sid Tuchman. For 25 years that name haunted me. Sid was at the center of a moment which is, 2½…

Payphones I Used To Know: a.k.a. Vandalism 101

10 years ago

Some time ago I commenced a project in which I intended to capture and perpetuate the memory of payphones in…

Caller ID, Payphones, and Fictitious 555 Numbers.

11 years ago

I spotted this discussion, which focuses on the question of what shows up on caller ID when one receives a…

Concord, Vermont. FairPoint Communications Phone Booth.

11 years ago

Erica Avery checks in again with these shots of a phone booth outside a FairPoint Communications building in Concord, Vermont.…

Sesame Street: Grover at the Phone Booth

11 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdmfAdsr1iY

1992: Dave Letterman Calls a Times Square Payphone

11 years ago

https://youtu.be/LxyV-e9cub0?t=2m17s David Letterman's telephone routines are, in my opinion, among the funniest bits he ever did in his 32 years…