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Phone Booth Photos from Daniel Hopsicker

Phone booth photos from Daniel Hopsicker, shot on various film formats with a film SLR. Phone booths here are from…

4 years ago

Payphones of Manhattan Valley. April 17, 2021. (Video)

There are not many payphones left in Manhattan Valley, but highlights from this weekend's tour of that area's telephonic detritus…

4 years ago

Payphone Rising: Astoria’s Streets Once Again Have Dial Tone.

Do people still use payphones? They would if they could.

4 years ago

A Payphone Prophet Speaks, or Rather Writes… erm… VANDALIZES.

I did not want to touch or even stand too near these phones, which stunk so badly of pee they…

4 years ago

Ravenswood Payphones Replaced With Dogpoop Receptacles.

The exact spots where payphones used to stand around the Ravenswood Houses are today all occupied by "DOG WASTE STATION"…

4 years ago

Rockefeller Center’s “Communications” Portal, Then and Now.

Unlike most phones from my "Payphones Then and Now" series I found one that not only physically survives in this…

4 years ago

Payphone of Yore at Meadow of Dan, North Carolina. Photos by Daniel Hopsicker.

Blue Porcelain Enamel and a dome top made this model unique and I love the triangular shaped sides that wing…

4 years ago

The Payphones at St. John Cemetery in Middle Village: Do They Work?

Of the three PTS phones at St. John Cemetery in Middle Village one of them wants to work but the…

4 years ago

Flushing Payphone Restored To Service. Thanks, PTS! (Video)

PTS, the nation's largest payphone service provider, is keeping the dial tone humming, at least at the Flushing Main Street…

4 years ago

A Best Buy Payphone, Then and Now. No, Not *That* Best Buy Payphone.

Where is he now? This payphone user, that is. Probably talking on a cell phone. I never see anyone use…

4 years ago