Payphones Past

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Payphones and Pants, Pants and Payphones

It's a commercial for pants -- Dockers pants -- which contains some nice imagery of abandoned phone booths from around…

13 years ago

Payphone History, by Ron Knappen

Here is a cool gift idea for the payphone enthusiast in your life, or for anyone with an interest in…

14 years ago

Telephone Exchange Names Redux

Back in March of 2010 I commenced a collection of Telephone Exchange Name Sightings. Like my interest in payphones, the…

15 years ago

Telephone Exchange Names

Here is my latest paean to telephone nostalgia: My collection of Telephone Exchange Name Sightings. You don't see too many…

15 years ago

Fading Tech: Dialup Internet

A look at WFMU.org, the web site of WFMU, shows that dial-up Internet users will not be able to access…

16 years ago

Laser Turntable

I landed on this product web site through the Random Yahoo Link. This "laser turntable" presents an interesting solution to…

16 years ago

NY Times Blog: A Phantom Bell Atlantic Phone Booth

A New York Times City Room Blog entry points us to a payphone enclosure which still bore vestiges of the…

17 years ago

Daytona Beach News: The Lost Jobs

The pay-phone maintenance man is cited as an example of a job that will eventually disappear. The maintenance man quoted…

19 years ago

Cutting the phone cord isn’t as popular as predicted

"While the number of wireless-only households is increasing -- close to 6 percent of all U.S. homes at the end…

20 years ago