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Blizzard Payphone, Before and After People Started Using It Again

People still use payphones. But we knew that already, didn't we?

5 years ago

Payphones on YouTube

My newly active YouTube channel caught the attention of some folks at PTS, who have been making fixes to non-working…

5 years ago

Payphones of Beckley, West Virginia. Photos by Daniel Hopsicker.

In this month of December, in this crazy year of 2020, the town of Beckley, West Virginia, has at least…

5 years ago

Tour of Some Payphones in the Bronx, Upper East Side, and the Port Authority Subway Station

Here's what I could find of payphones in three separate parts of town. Not much dial tone to be heard…

5 years ago

Profiles in Technology

A poignant little pairing of the old and the new at 21st Street and Astoria Boulevard.

5 years ago

Tijuana Take Your Mother to the Payphone?

Some Tijuana, Mexico, payphones, from Gabriel Sandoval, reporter at TheCity.NYC. I've backed up Gabriel a few times on his coverage…

5 years ago

Dead Phone in a Land of the Dead

Two of my life's interests meet: A payphone at a cemetery. An old, abandoned PTS rig stands just inside the…

5 years ago

Woodside’s Payphone for the Fallen Soldiers

I got schooled yesterday on what the graffiti all over this payphone means. A gang member told me these are…

5 years ago