Payphones Past

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Call Mom? Payphone’s Gone. Can’t Call Mom When The Payphone’s Gone!

You can't call mom from this emptied payphone enclosure. But I did use it as a springboard for an opaque…

7 years ago

Remembering the KILL Payphone

A picture I posted to sorabji.com in December, 2002, of a payphone covered with one vandal's attempt to capture the…

7 years ago

Greeley Square Payphone

Red white and black graf on a Greeley Square payphone

7 years ago

Payphone At The End Of The R, Starring 1-800-MAX-SAVE

An abandoned Verizon payphone in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, leads to a somewhat interesting tale of the alleged theft of a…

7 years ago

He’s Still Listening … Tim Perdue

Echoes of "This Phone is Tapped" inform this pair of then-and-now photos from Flickr photographer Tim Perdue.

7 years ago

Laidric Stevenson – Night Call

Payphones around Texas. What's left of them, that is. Photos by Laidric Stevenson. Find lots more Texas payphone photos at…

7 years ago

Payphoneless Enclosure Lurks Near Headless Mannequins

I saw this abandoned payphone enclosure on 41st and Baxter Avenues in Elmhurst and thought it looked like the empty…

7 years ago

Payphone Gone

Payphones are not dead yet. Here is a shot of the innards of a payphone enclosure minus the payphone, graffiti…

7 years ago

New Year, Old Payphones

When I first heard about 80s.nyc, a Streetview for NYC in the 1980s, I thought it sounded like inspiration for…

8 years ago

A Phone Booth at Journal Square: P.J. Ryan’s Squared

I spotted an old wood phone booth at PJ Ryan's Squared, a bar at the Journal Square PATH Station in…

8 years ago