Payphones Past

Payphone of the East River, 11 Years Later

11 years ago

When I spotted this disembodied payphone component in the East River last week I immediately recognized it as the remains…

Payphone Project Makes the L.A. Times.

11 years ago

The author got my age wrong, but otherwise penned a nicely done piece on the enduring value of public telephones…

The Payphones Of Futures Past

11 years ago

A slightly shorter version of this story appeared earlier at Ask A New Yorker. The so-called "payphone of the future"…

Serial Podcast: The Mysterious Best Buy Payphone

11 years ago

This post from Nov. 7 was updated Nov. 23, 2014, for clarity, and to make a handful of new observations.…

Music at Grand Central Subway Station, Heard Through A Payphone

11 years ago

Thanks to Sarah Theeboom at Details.com for giving a shoutout to The Payphone Project's "Heard Through a Payphone" series: How…

Subway Buskers, Heard Through a Nearby Payphone

11 years ago

Listen in as a drummer and electric violinist (or possibly violist) perform a cover of Led Zepplin's "Kashmir", with an…

Fort Worth, Texas

11 years ago

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Radio Interference, Payphone Style

11 years ago

Even if you actually wanted to make a call from this payphone it would be very difficult to communicate with…

Circleville, West Virginia

11 years ago

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Phone

11 years ago

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