Payphones Past

Payphone Pictures & Sounds

Zong Li Lu: Single String Lute Music Heard Through a Payphone

The somewhat harsh timbre of the single string lute seems to suit the scratchy, monochrome texture of the landline telephone.

8 years ago

NYC Payphone Customer

A New Yorker using a Titan-branded payphone under the RFK/Triborough Bridge.

8 years ago

Grove, Oklahoma. Phone Booth Sans Payphone. Photo by Brien Engel.

It's a photo from Brien Engel of an abandoned phone booth in Grove, Oklahoma. Hello?

8 years ago

Montreal: A Fine Use For A Payphone

Bob Parent, from Montreal, sends this funny picture illustrating how payphones today are sometimes used for everything and anything except…

8 years ago

New York City: Payphone in a Toilet

Ron Dunn, a new follower of the Payphone Project Facebook Page, yesterday offered up this Pulitzer-worthy shot of a New…

8 years ago

Phone Booth at Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos, California.

The photo of a phone booth at the Vasona Lake County Park was taken a couple of years ago, on…

8 years ago

Kununurra, Western Australia. Drysdale River Station Payphone.

Larry T. Miniard shares this photo, from June, 2016, of a payphone from Kununurra, Western Australia, at the Drysdale River…

8 years ago

Payphones Aplenty in Panama. Here’s One From Santa Fé.

Panama still has many payphones, writes Mary Roush: "There are payphones on Contadora and Saboga in the Pearl Islands and,…

8 years ago

Anguilla: Payphone On A Tree Stump

Jim Hannum shares this photo of a payphone on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. It is somewhat unusually located on…

8 years ago

Trenèí­n, Slovak Republic +421327000014 & +4213270000103

Photos by Arthur W. of Payphones and a phone booth in Trenèín, Slovak Republic. Originally posted to The Payphone Project…

8 years ago