Maine’s Public Interest Payphones
Take a tour of Maine's Public Interest Payphones, deployed at locations throughout the state in the interest of public safety.
Payphone Gone. 31st Street and 38th Avenue in Astoria.
An amazing thing about these payphone enclosures is how successfully they cancel out the noise of the above-ground subway, allowing one to continue a conversation without having to scream. The same cannot be said of the LinkNYC kiosks that threaten to replace and supplement the quantity of today's NYC payphones.
How To Use a Phone Booth In This Year of 2020
I spotted this woman talking on her smartphone from within a payphone enclosure. That's how we use payphone enclosures these days.
Phone Booth on Route 11 in Martinsburg, West Virginia
Frontier branding covered that of Verizon on this phone booth that used to stand near Bowers Street and Winchester Avenue in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
(415) 669-9997: Remote Payphone, Inverness, California
(415) 669-9997, in Inverness, California, must rank among the most remote payphone locations in the United States. This photo was sent in years ago and I'm sorry to say I can only credit the photographer as "Dr. G."
A Consolidated Smart Systems Payphone in Hollywood, 20 Years Ago
A phone owned by an internet service and telephony provider still in business today once stood outside a Hollywood laundromat 20 years ago this month. It is long gone.
Just What I Was Hoping Not To See: Someone Using a Payphone
A shared public pay telephone must rank among the likeliest conduits for transmitting something like the corona virus. That does not seem to have inhibited this individual from using a payphone sans gloves or a facemask.
Portland’s FUTEL Payphone in the Time of Corona
Payphone usage instructions updated for the age of coronavirus. Seen on one of Portland’s FUTEL payphones. From the Instagram account of Arturo Calilung.
Phone Booth at the Harrison Hall Hotel, Ocean City, MD
Daniel Hopsicker's photo of the phone booth at the Harrison Hall Hotel in Ocean City, MD.
Payphones at Newark Penn Station
I found more working payphones than expected at Penn Station in Newark, NJ. These pictures are from 2018 but most of the phones still seem to work.
Dude Talking on a Payphone. September, 2014.
From when I was trying to be a serious payphone photographer. 21st Street and 29th Avenue in Astoria.
A Wood Phone Booth in the Adirondacks.
A cool shot of a wood phone booth somewhere in the Adirondacks, from the Instagram page of Anne Warner.
Some Payphone Ramblings From Quarantine
I waded through over 700 of my payphone pictures, using them as a writing prompt and to talk about what some of these phones mean or meant to me.
Waterville High School Payphone, 2011. Photo by Daniel Hopsicker.
Forest Hills/71st Avenue Subway Payphone: 718-520-9702
Payphones in NYC's subway system are not facing removal to make way for LinkNYC kiosks, though they have disappeared in some quantity this year, even the ones that worked.
Barricade the Payphones to Stop Corona Virus
Simple solution. Seen on Madison Avenue today.
LinkNYC: Iron Rain?
LinkNYC's AP headlines often provide little information but plenty of bewilderment to its public. I saw this and was like, tf?
Queensbridge Payphones: 718-784-8935, 718-729-9638
These back-to-back payphones at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City have some special meaning to me, on account of the circumstances under which I found them.
Benner-Nawman’s BN800 Vanguard Egg-Shaped Enclosure, by Daniel Hopsicker
I spotted this once-popular model of payphone enclosure in Nebraska, Brooklyn, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, and even in the movies, where this style of enclosure made an appearance in The Phone Booth Game, from "Dirty Harry".
718-624-9288, Jay Street-MetroTech Subway Station in Brooklyn. It Works.
I unexpectedly found a working payphone at a Brooklyn subway station today.
Abandoned Payphone Stand in Brownsville, Brooklyn
What could a BMW dealership on Long Island possibly have to do with the ghost of a payphone in Brownsville, Brooklyn?
Phone Booth at the Great Valley Motel in Wellsboro, PA
A few photos of a single phone booth in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, by Daniel Hopsicker.
Boston Pagoda Payphone at Harrison and Kneeland, 2014
The last pagoda payphones in New York's Chinatown disappeared a few years ago, and this payphone enclosure from Boston, at Harrison and Kneeland, is gone as well.
K2 Phone Box, Victoria Embankment. Photos by Paul Voller.
Paul Voller, who has occasionally contributed photos to this website for many years, returns with these images of a K2 phone box beautified with a stained glass display at London's Victoris Embankment.
There Is, Of Course, a Phone Booth Stuffed With Kegs in Speculator, New York
Phone Booth Full of Kegs. Photo by Daniel Hopsicker. Speculator, NY.
Talking on an Astoria Payphone. March, 2014.
Just a dude in Astoria, Queens, talking on a now-gone payphone.
Boston Payphones, 2014: Dartmouth and Stuart
Outside an Eastern Bank in Boston, these phones' numbers would be (617) 247-1255 and (617) 247-1249, if they still stand today.
Continuing my Roundup of Boston Payphones from 2014
These two back-to-back payphones, at 617-338-6433 and 617-338-6548, appear to remain active on Summer Street, near Macy's, in Boston, 5½ years after I took these photos, and who knows how many years since first deployed.