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The Payphone at Crabtree Falls State Park. Montebello, VA. Photos by Daniel Hopsicker.

Has anyone even touched the payphone at Crabtree Falls State Park since Daniel Hopsicker took these photos over a month…

4 years ago

Grand Central Payphones, 1988

I picked up three boxes of 35mm slides labeled "NYC Street Scenes 1980s" at a thrift shop. For only five…

4 years ago

Payphone Carcasses of Staten Island

A driving tour of Staten Island's abandoned payphone carcasses turned up way more specimens than expected. My favorite was the…

4 years ago

Do Any of the Payphones in Clifton and Passaic Work? Newtel and the Big Lie.

I had never been to Clifton or Passaic but I had a hunch there'd be a good quantity of old…

4 years ago

Lower Manhattan and Chinatown Payphones Revisited (video)

Chasing down what is left of Lower Manhattan's payphones since I last toured the area in January. Spoiler alert: There…

4 years ago

Cool 1980s Payphone Shot From Jeffrey Johnson’s Flickr Stream

A 1980s film photo showing 6 New Jersey Bell payphones in a row with the old Twin Towers and Lower…

4 years ago

Are There Payphones in Hoboken? You Bet. (Video)

Found 2 or 3 dozen payphones in Hoboken before finding them became kind of monotonous. I was looking for surviving…

4 years ago

Video: Some Midtown Payphones Revisited. May 6, 2021.

Looks like most of the payphones formerly found on the side streets of Fifth Avenue from Rockefeller Center down to…

4 years ago

First American Telecommunications Corp. Payphone. August, 2012.

This phone, seen in Elmhurst in August, 2012, is long gone, but the company that owned it still appears to…

4 years ago

Video: Astoria’s Last PRAYphones Finally Gone.

A payphone that actually still got usage until its dial tone dropped has finally been removed from Steinway Street in…

4 years ago