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Christmas Through a Payphone: “O Holy Night”

Whenever I hear a subway busker or street musician performing I look for the nearest payphone. If one is nearby,…

10 years ago

“Hang Up”, a Payphone Documentary, Is Public

"Hang Up", the New York City payphone documentary to which I contributed, is now viewable on the public Internet for the…

10 years ago

Payphones on the American Landscape: Josef Hoflehner, Photographer

Josef Hoflehner's photo, taken this calendar year, shows a living, breathing, dial-tone-enabled payphone on a snow-caked boardwalk of Lake Erie,…

10 years ago

The Missing Links: What Will They Really Look Like?

Let me be the first to say it: Citybridge's Link devices look pretty flippin' ugly. Thousands of these hulkish, intrusive…

10 years ago

“Mark Thomas Knows Pay Phones.”

Mark Dent at BillyPenn.com penned a nicely done piece on the surprising quantity of payphones actively in service in Philadelphia.…

10 years ago

Adele’s “Hello” Video: It’s All About The Phone Booth

Pundits and techies pounced on the appearance of a flip phone in the video for Adele’s latest song “Hello”, calling…

10 years ago

Call (425) 347-9966, the Phone Booth in the World’s Biggest Building

Deep within the bowels of the world largest building (the Boeing Everett Factory in Washington) one finds a surprise: An…

10 years ago

“Hang Up”, a Payphone Documentary, Now Playing at the Brooklyn Historical Society

"Hang Up" Ugo Massa'a payphone documentary to which I contributed last year, is playing at 3pm every Sunday in October…

10 years ago

Payphone Users of New York: Call the NBC News I-Team

If you see something, know something, or want the NBC I-Team’s squad of gotcha journalists to publicly shame someone who…

10 years ago

Payphone Flashback, 1976: Honesty is the Best Policy

Acting on impulse one day late last summer, young Alfred Higley Jr. proved that honesty still lives. The 12-year-old, who…

10 years ago