In January I set up the NYC Payphone Locator, seeding it with data released by the city’s DoITT (Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications). This dataset is filled with numerous errors and omissions. Payphones removed years ago still appear, while none of the hundreds of public phones located in subway stations, transit hubs, theaters, and…
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Instagram photo by Leslie Litton. View this post on Instagram Doesn't work. LOL A post shared by Leslie King (@lesliekingpedals) on Sep 26, 2014 at 1:20pm PDT Instagram photo by Leslie Litton.
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Instagram photo by Chris Ciesielski. View this post on Instagram phone #nofilter #phonebooth A post shared by Chris Ciesielski (@fac_33) on Sep 25, 2014 at 5:19pm PDT Instagram photo by Chris Ciesielski.
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Chinatown, San Francisco. Photo by Fred Lyon.

1950s-era photo of a pagoda-topped payphone in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Photo by Fred Lyon, via Slate.com. 1950s-era photo of a pagoda-topped payphone in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Photo by Fred Lyon, via Slate.com. Originally posted in June, 2013, herewith follows a select list of links to photos of other pagoda styled payphones from around the Intertubes:…
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Instagram photo by NieNie Ward. View this post on Instagram #oldschool #payphone #changeplease #gottomakethatcall #lmao @font_goddess #insidejokes #hophone #callcollect A post shared by NieNie Ward (@officespace) on Aug 26, 2014 at 6:48pm PDT Instagram photo by NieNie Ward.
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Instagram photo by Bryan Rutledge. View this post on Instagram Using a payphone in 2014 can only mean one of two things. You're either calling your Pimp or calling your Crystal meth dealer. #PayPhone #WhoTheFuckStillUsesAPayPhone #Pimp #Meth #Quincy #Massachusetts A post shared by Bryan Rutledge (@bryanrutledge) on Sep 26, 2014 at 3:35pm PDT Instagram photo…
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This payphone/TTY accepts incoming calls, and according to contributor Bruce Hart it rings loud and clear. I called the number and it rang four or five times before going to its internal modem. [alert_box style=”info” close=”no” custom_class=””]Why do I hear a FAX signal when I call a payphone?[/alert_box]Most payphones these days are programmed to reject…
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Instagram photo by 80sNostalgia. View this post on Instagram Pay phones in bright red phone boxes. A post shared by 80sNostalgia (@80snostalgia) on Sep 14, 2014 at 1:39am PDT Instagram photo by 80sNostalgia.
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Flickr photo by Terry Roberts. Like everything else at Tyneham the outdoor telephone box seen in this photo has been frozen in time since 1943. It was in December of that year that the last residents of Tyneham left the village under the orders of Britain’s Southern Command, which needed the land to coördinate the…
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These photos appeared in the February, 1943, edition of “Bell Telephone Magazine”, accompanying an article titled “Camp Telephone Managers Render an Important Service”. The photos and captions paint a picture of the role public telephones played in military life during World War II. The photos also show what typical public telephone rooms and facilities were…
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Vintage rotary dial Italian payphone at a Rockaway Beach thrift shop, Queens, New York. Instagram photo by CHRISSYNEAFSEY. View this post on Instagram #tagsale #sundaymorning I can make my calls on this #Italian #payphone #rockawaybeach #nyc #nofilter #inlaws A post shared by chrissyneafsey (@chrissyneafsey) on Jul 13, 2014 at 7:24am PDT
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