Payphones Past

Payphone News

Dialing Instructions, Coastal Communications Payphone

For local calls - Deposit 25¢ for 3 minutes, dial number (Overtime is 10¢ for an additional 2 minutes). NOTE:…

13 years ago

Payphone Profundity

I interpret this vigorous scrawl of vandalism as an expression of the cacophonous noise of silence and an inability to…

13 years ago

1961 Bell Telephone Ad: This was the first telephone booth

It was "invented" in 1877, two years after the telephone itself. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson, his assistant,…

13 years ago

Payphone Users Revisited

Do Payphones Still Exist? Do People Still Use Payphones? Yes, and Yes.

13 years ago

Minerva Cuevas: “Free calls”.

"The free pay phone is a powerful piece, the equivalent of an art-world bomb aimed at the web of private…

13 years ago

NYC: Free Wi-Fi. Why? Fie!

The recent announcement that a small number of the New York City's payphone enclosures had been crowned with Wi-Fi antennæ…

13 years ago

Weburbanist: 20 Abandoned Payphones

Weburbanist borrows a few pictures from the Payphone Project and other sources in this showcase of abandoned payphones.

13 years ago

Penn Station: Payphone Ghetto

This looks like an image from an earlier generation. The harried businessman, travelling through New York, rushes to a payphone…

13 years ago

Who Called Me From (702) 992-9550?

I didn't do it. But if someone appears to have called you from (702) 992-9550 in Las Vegas, Nevada, then…

13 years ago