Comments on: An Astoria Payphone Location, Then and Now https://www.payphone-project.com/an-astoria-payphone-location-then-and-now.html Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:08:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/an-astoria-payphone-location-then-and-now.html#comment-34062 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:08:46 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=12079#comment-34062 In reply to Joe.

Appreciate the comments, and the inspiration. Just posted Grand Central Terminal “Then and Now” photos.

StreetView is interesting but, as I’ve found, not regularly useful for this kind of thing. Too many parked trucks in the way, blurry imagery, blahblah. BUT, once in a while I find a shot of someone actually using a payphone.

]]> By: Joe https://www.payphone-project.com/an-astoria-payphone-location-then-and-now.html#comment-34042 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:10:11 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=12079#comment-34042 Whenever I find a payphone around Los Angeles or wherever I like to find old pics of the area if I can or go to street view to see how the phones evolved. Most of the ones I come across don’t work of course, but I’ve found about 15 or so with dial tone in the last year. It’s cool you have pics of New York phones from twenty years back because I love seeing side by side pics like this. Also like the Nicolas Pobre Los Angeles pics on this site and have been by those areas many times. I was born in the 90s but I remember making payphone calls in the 2000s because I didn’t have a cell phone at the time. Now days babies are practically born with iPhones in their hands.

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