Payphones Past

Look Who Still Uses Payphones

12 years ago

This well-dressed Upper East side woman took a break from walking her dog to make a call from a Titan…

“Squeeze-Play Craze” Reaches Nebraska – April, 1959

12 years ago

The "Squeeze-Play" was the phone-booth-stuffing fad of the 1950s, made most famous by Life Magazine photographer Joe Munroe's iconic image.…

Montreal Payphones

12 years ago

Having watched the precipitous decline of public telephones in New York City and throughout the United States I found it…

(212) 473-9148. McSorley’s Old Ale Pub. Vacuous Bloombergia Tourist Hell Hole.

12 years ago

(212) 473-9148. McSorley's Old Ale Pub. Vacuous Tourist Bloombergia Hell Hole. This payphone accepts incoming calls. Happy at least to…

Chinatown, NYC: Pagoda Payphones Rediscovered

12 years ago

Bill Harris' "New York", a coffee table book published in 1979, captures some classic images of pre-Giuliani New York City.…

Operation Pay Phone (A CNN iReport)

12 years ago

This series of reports from CNN's iReport is from 2010, but it loses nothing for being a few years old.

Casino Queen Hits A Payphone Jackpot (Commercial)

12 years ago

The small but satisfying thrill of getting a quarter back from a payphone segues in to the more volcanic thrill…

Phreaking the Telebeam. October, 2013.

12 years ago

Youngsters catching up on their obsolete hack0r skillz

Who Still Uses Payphones?

12 years ago

The Payphone Project's occasional reminder that people still use payphones.

Life With Luigi – The Phone Booth (1952)

12 years ago

Luigi Bosco installs a phone booth in his antique shop to drum up business, but attracts nothing more than a…