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No Phone in the Phone Booth at Meadowbrook Campground, Ray Brook, NY

This is another set of photos from Daniel Hopsicker, who's been sending up dozens of payphone and phone booth photos…

5 years ago

A Video Tour of Long Island City’s Last Payphones

I've been on a video-making kick lately. This one has me traipsing familiar territory, along 21st Street in Long Island…

5 years ago

No Dial Tone Here But the Old New York Telephone Era Signage is Cool

These non-working payphones will probably never work again but the SpareRoom advertising panel is new, proving yet again that payphone…

5 years ago

Why Is This Payphone Yelling At Me?

Whilst passing this phone today it sounded, from several feet away, like noise was coming out of it, making me…

5 years ago

Queensbridge Payphones, One Last Time

Because I didn't think the previous video was all that great, and because I guess I'm on a video kick…

5 years ago

Another Payphone Up Close

While making this little video about one of the last independently-owned payphones in town I had the unusual experience of…

5 years ago

Caught In the Act. A Most Magical Moment.

This was awesome. Magical, even. I was making a video about this phone when a real world payphone user interrupted…

5 years ago

Queensbridge Payphones Revisited

I discovered these payphones on March 25, 2017, the day before my appearance on "CBS Sunday Morning", when an anxiety-fueled…

5 years ago

Borden Avenue Has Lost Its Dialtone

A short video of my discovery that a trusted, fully functional payphone had been chopped, with some pictures of how…

5 years ago

Midtown Manhattan Payphone User. September, 1999.

Rummaging through old photos, found this one today. It's a Midtown Manhattan payphone user, with an arrow for emphasis, from…

5 years ago