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$1 For Two Minutes? That’s Survival Mode.

It looks like I might have made my last phone call from the last payphone at Rockefeller Center after PTS…

7 years ago

He’s Still Listening … Tim Perdue

Echoes of "This Phone is Tapped" inform this pair of then-and-now photos from Flickr photographer Tim Perdue.

7 years ago

Payphone key to 10-year mystery | Central Telegraph

How many phone booths and payphones are central to stories of crime and intrigue? Many, of course, among them the…

8 years ago

Denver Art Museum’s “Psychedelic Experience” Phone Booths, 2009

A video playlist of 25 short recordings from an interactive piece involving phone booths at the Denver Art Museum's "Psychedelic…

8 years ago

Two Years of LinkNYC

It has been a couple of years since CityBridge commenced its raid of New York City's sidewalks with its so-called…

8 years ago

New Year, Old Payphones

When I first heard about 80s.nyc, a Streetview for NYC in the 1980s, I thought it sounded like inspiration for…

8 years ago

Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars – Motherboard

“Payphones are out here making money while some of the newest, hottest, and most ‘successful’ tech companies around are still…

8 years ago

Minnesotans: Call 507-881-0051, Tell Your Story to the Lanesboro Phone Booth

As part of a storytelling project Lanesboro Arts is launching Saturday, a decommissioned payphone in downtown Lanesboro will play a…

8 years ago

Payphone Locator for Hoboken, New Jersey

A trip to Hoboken turned up a surprising quantity of payphones, including relics of what were once considered the payphone…

8 years ago

Manhattan’s Last Outdoor Phone Booths: What’s The Deal?

One of the more oddball moves by the CityBridge consortium was its replacement of Manhattan's classic American Airlight style phone…

8 years ago