Payphones Past

Brother, can you spare a quarter?

I get quoted at far greater length than I deserve in this nice story about the potential removal of a payphone in Farmington, New York. I did not know that this was going to be the front page, big-time boffo news story of the day at this paper; nor did I know I would be dubbed the “fearless leader” of the payphone world. Jessica Pierce, who wrote the story, was nice enough to send me a couple of copies of the print edition. Thanks, Jessica! It was great to see my payphone graveyard photo in print.
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