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How To Use a Phone Booth In This Year of 2020

I spotted this woman talking on her smartphone from within a payphone enclosure. That's how we use payphone enclosures these…

5 years ago

Phone Booth on Route 11 in Martinsburg, West Virginia

Frontier branding covered that of Verizon on this phone booth that used to stand near Bowers Street and Winchester Avenue…

5 years ago

(415) 669-9997: Remote Payphone, Inverness, California

(415) 669-9997, in Inverness, California, must rank among the most remote payphone locations in the United States. This photo was…

5 years ago

A Consolidated Smart Systems Payphone in Hollywood, 20 Years Ago

A phone owned by an internet service and telephony provider still in business today once stood outside a Hollywood laundromat…

5 years ago

Just What I Was Hoping Not To See: Someone Using a Payphone

A shared public pay telephone must rank among the likeliest conduits for transmitting something like the corona virus. That does…

5 years ago

Portland’s FUTEL Payphone in the Time of Corona

Payphone usage instructions updated for the age of coronavirus. Seen on one of Portland's FUTEL payphones. From the Instagram account…

5 years ago

Phone Booth at the Harrison Hall Hotel, Ocean City, MD

Daniel Hopsicker's photo of the phone booth at the Harrison Hall Hotel in Ocean City, MD.

5 years ago

Payphones at Newark Penn Station

I found more working payphones than expected at Penn Station in Newark, NJ. These pictures are from 2018 but most…

5 years ago

Dude Talking on a Payphone. September, 2014.

From when I was trying to be a serious payphone photographer. 21st Street and 29th Avenue in Astoria.

5 years ago

A Wood Phone Booth in the Adirondacks.

A cool shot of a wood phone booth somewhere in the Adirondacks, from the Instagram page of Anne Warner.

5 years ago