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The Old Phone Booth On Yankee Pier, NYC

The old phone booth on Yankee Pier is one of the last outdoor, free-standing phone booths in New York City.…

13 years ago

News-Press.com: Payphones Do Serve a Purpose

A News-Press.com reporter eavesdrops on a payphone in Fort Myers, Florida, reporting on the content of the calls. The story…

13 years ago

USA Today: Pay phones still exist?

For some reason USA Today's June 10 story about the decline of payphones in the United States includes a photo…

13 years ago

Who Still Uses Payphones?

Payphones (the ones that actually work) appear to be anything but silent in New York City. Today's payphone user does…

13 years ago

Payphone Users of the 21st Century

This is a photograph of 2 human beings using a public pay telephone (PPT) in New York City in the…

13 years ago

Sioux City: “Pay phones were vaporized.”

"The pay phone previously present at the Kum & Go at 14th and Pierce? Gone. The one on Pierce Street…

13 years ago

FairPoint Communications Sells Its Payphones to Pacific Telemanagement Services

Pacific Telemanagement Services (PTS) continues its acquisition of U.S. public pay telephone locations with the purchase of approximately 4000 payphones…

13 years ago

Days Of Our Payphones

Canada's National Post follows a day in the life of a Toronto Payphone and makes the shocking discovery that the…

13 years ago

Egg-Shaped Payphone Enclosure

Nebraska's Public Service Commission requires that every community in Nebraska have one public pay telephone. That decades-old requirement is now…

13 years ago

Mapping Payphone Complaints

Something existentially useless about a map showing locations of non-working payphones inspired me to create just such a map. It's…

13 years ago