Payphones Past

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There Really Did Used To Be Payphones All Over The Place

As recently as 2009 you could find public pay telephones at almost every street corner and intersection in New York.…

6 years ago

Brookville Telephone: Mannequin in a Phone Booth on Route 6 in Pennsylvania

Just an unusual and intriguing photo of a mannequin holding the handset of a rotary dial payphone, spotted by Daniel…

6 years ago

Payphone Knot

Just a picture of a payphone cord tied up in an OCD-fueled knot.

6 years ago

Long-Dead Payphone at the Crown Motel, née Crown Motor Inn, Queens Boulevard

Close-ups of a long-dead payphone outside a notorious hourly-rates motel on Queens Boulevard.

6 years ago

36th Avenue/Washington Avenue in Astoria, ~1997, Maybe Later

Just a picture of a credit-card-only phone at the 36th Avenue/Washington Avenue train station in Astoria, circa 1997, maybe later.

6 years ago

New York Payphone and Phone Booth Photos by Daniel Hopsicker

Select payphone and phone booth photos from Daniel Hopsicker's travels through New York State.

6 years ago

Craaaazy Payphone. January, 2007.

Rummaging through digital detritus on my 12TB RAID turned up this photo of an arted-up payphone at Queens Plaza in…

6 years ago

China Telecom Multimedia Telephone

China Telecom's Multimedia Telephone includes something notably absent from LinkNYC kiosks: A telephone handset.

6 years ago

Boston Common Payphones, July 2014

My quest continues to find payphones of Boston from 2014 that still work today in 2020. No such luck today.…

6 years ago

Boston Payphones, 2014

Boston payphone pictures from 2014. All the phones in set seem to be gone but other in Boston survive. I…

6 years ago