Payphones Past

“I found your father!”

12 years ago

I spotted this man using a payphone on New Years Day, 2014. I thought he was saying "I PHONED YOUR…

Kabul, Afghanistan

12 years ago

Picture of an Afghan Telecom payphone. Kabul, Afghanistan.

Chicago’s Vanishing Pay Telephones (2007)

12 years ago

This story, from Chicago's WGN television, is from 6 years ago but in many ways it could have been produced…

“left to twirl a gap-toothed dial in some phone-booth”

12 years ago

"left to twirl a gap-toothed dial in some phone-booth". From "Postscriptum", by Joseph Brodsky.

St. Maarten/St. Martin Payphone. November, 2013

12 years ago

Closeup of a payphone seen on the Caribbean Island of St. Maarten/St. Martin. November, 2013.

Paying Payphone Customer

12 years ago

A picture of a human being using a public pay telephone. A.D. 2013.

Times Square Payphone Customer

12 years ago

I actually had to wait in line to use this Times Square payphone last week.

Upper East Side Payphone Customer

12 years ago

Try to imagine the story behind this well-dressed Upper East Side man using a payphone and toting a bottle of…

Payphone Innards

12 years ago

This shiny spool of metal wire, part of a payphone's innards, lay exposed for several weeks in a Manhattan subway…