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Underdog Communications: The Fine Print

Dialing instructions and other unreadable text matter fine print from a defunct payphone once owned by Underdog Communications .

12 years ago

NYTEL Payphone: The Fine Print

Dialing Instructions and other text matter from an NYTEL payphone, abandoned years ago.

12 years ago

1971: Why the street corner phone is no longer in danger of becoming extinct.

1971 advertisement promoting Western Electric's "armored pay phone".

12 years ago

Reliatel International Inc.: The Fine Print

Dialing instructions and other text matter from a Reliatel International Inc. pay telephone. Reliatel is now defunct.

12 years ago

BAS Communications: The Fine Print

Dialing instructions and other text matter from a BAS Communications public telephone.

12 years ago

Recalling Calling “Recalling 1993”

"Recalling 1993" is a payphone-based art project produced by the Droga5 ad agency and the New Museum. I put the…

12 years ago

Old School NYNEX Public Phone Signage. April, 2013.

I spotted this old school NYNEX Public Phone sign lurking over a Queens subway station.

12 years ago

Paca-Tel Payphones: The Fine Print

Dialing instructions and other hard-to-read minutiæ found on a Paca-Tel payphone.

12 years ago

Coastal Communications: The Fine Print

Dialing instructions and other hard-to-read minutiæ found on a Coastal Communications payphone.

12 years ago

Another Abandoned PTS Payphone

Most of New York City's subway stations are littered with useless hulks of payphones abandoned by Pacific Telemanagement Services (PTS).…

12 years ago