When I first heard about 80s.nyc, a Streetview for NYC in the 1980s, I thought it sounded like inspiration for an extended dream sequence from "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer". I went out clicking for payphones and phone booths, and found quite a few. It was good fun, even if it chewed up a little too much time.
I spotted an old wood phone booth at PJ Ryan's Squared, a bar at the Journal Square PATH Station in Jersey City, NJ. No payphone, but an old rotary dial device holds down the fort.
The Journal Square section of Jersey City, NJ, had an impressive quantity of working payphones, most of them owned by NewTel Payphone Operations.
I spotted these beautiful 1960s Manhattan phone booths while clicking through an underappreciated Facebook group called Astoria Beat.
This phone booth on Mt. Ponpon in Kyoto, Japan, is filled with wasps. From the Sharing Kyoto Twitter page.
Red, White, and Light Purple seem to comprise the color theme for these two dancers occupying a duo of Manhattan payphone enclosures. This is an older photo from before these payphones were trashed and replaced by a LinkNYC monolith.
From Instagram photographer breesalvatore comes this black and white shot of a phone booth outside the Giant Burger in Springfield, Oregon.
Photo is from November 25, 1985, by Jorge Vasconcelos. Please take a tour of his Flickr stream.
A red payphone casts a long shadow in Kerala, India.
Mr Fitshace, at YouTube writes: While my family and I were vacationing in Maine I found a pay phone! It was attached to the Maine Diner. If you’re ever in the Wells Maine area I highly suggest eating there. The food is wicked good and the waitstaff are extremely nice 🙂
Journalist Julie Cruz is seen on Instagram talking late on a Monedas payphone in Playa Paraiso, Tulum, Mexico. A quick search on Monedas payphones led to an interesting resource.
Camp Rudder, on the Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle, is home to this row of 7 phone booths. You just never know where you might find these things.
The Kreller Girls found a bank of payphones at LAX. Great photo.
Instagram photographer Simon Weller encountered a rarity in the village of Onchan, on the Isle of Man: A fully functional K8 phone box with a working phone. Only 54 K8s are known to exist in the UK.
Watch a short video from a man who discovered a payphone at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PA.
Hey, why not?
A follower of the Payphone Project Facebook page shared this image from Soquel, California.
Phone booth photos from Michigan And Missouri, taken by a follower of the Payphone Project Facebook page.
This photo by Twitter follower Brian Perera shows a phone booth with a working payphone inside. Spotted yesterday at Skully's Music-Diner in Columbus, Ohio.
This West Virginia house for sale might be a fixer-upper but it comes with an unusual perk: A phone booth with a working payphone right in the front yard.
Val Vashon checks in again to report that Chicago's O'Hare Airport has a surprising quantity of payphones, and they all seem to work.
From Instagram photographer rocco_pendola comes this non-working, busted up payphone in Santa Monica, California.
Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi has brought Airlight phone booths to Times Square in Manhattan, bringing a whiff of the 1980s back to the Crossroads of the World.
David Moore, a long-time contributor to The Payphone Project, spotted this payphone user yesterday in Tel Aviv, Israel, a place which has never been well represented at this web site.
I spotted this gentleman using a payphone on Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan today. People still use payphones.
The Temple City Motel in Salt Lake City once had a classic Airlight style phone booth out front. Today it is gone.
A photo of a working payphone in North Conway, New Hampshire, led me to see if the Payphone Project's other phone booths from the Granite State are still around.
I spotted this woman dropping 50¢ into an NYC subway payphone yesterday. It's true: People still use payphones!