Spotted this new-to-me old Telephone EXchange Name number today: LO-8-6700. In NYC "LO" stood for "LOngacre," and I thought that…
It's not that mailboxes are vanishing. Instead we are losing distinct stamps of age that showed how some humble little…
The advertisement below appeared in the August 6, 1957, edition the Panama City News-Herald. It appeared in numerous publications nationwide.…
I did a short interview yesterday with Channel 9, an NBC affiliate in Denver, on the occasion of anniversary of…
An abandoned payphone in Queens bears an interesting notice which claims that the phone is marked with something called "Tracekit",…
Once in a while in my research a charming cultural relic surfaces, such as this peppy New York Telephone commercial…
Pundits and techies pounced on the appearance of a flip phone in the video for Adele’s latest song “Hello”, calling…
Even if you actually wanted to make a call from this payphone it would be very difficult to communicate with…
Earlier this year John Porter (of East Harlem Unity Communications) and I appeared in "Hang Up" - a payphone documentary…
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