Payphones Past

Payphone Pictures & Sounds

Abandoned Phone Booth, Seaview Motel in Pennsville, NJ.

An anonymous photographer contributed this artsy black and white photo of an abandoned Verizon-branded phone booth found at the Seaview…

8 years ago

Alaska: Phone Booth Near the Wrangell Seaplane Base

Mark Cotton saw The Payphone Project on CBS Sunday Morning and sent over this photo from May 2016. It is…

8 years ago

Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Trolley Stop Phone Booth

Nancy Catallo shares this beautiful shot of a well-lit phone booth containing a Bell of Pennsylvania payphone and, possibly, a…

8 years ago

Holbrook, Arizona: A Ghostly Truck Stop Payphone Room

Mike Melchiors sends us an eerie if not profound photo of an abandoned payphone room at a truck stop in…

8 years ago

Phone Booth, San Juan National Forest, Colorado

This week I'll be sharing some of the payphone and phone booth photos sent to the Payphone Project from around…

8 years ago

The Payphone Project on “CBS Sunday Morning”

The Payphone Project get about a minute of air time on CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley. Reviews all seem…

8 years ago

London, 1975: Phone Booths at Tube Station

Photo from the London underground, 1975. Man using one of three phone booths in the London tube. From Flickr photographer…

8 years ago

Hill Street Blues: The World Is Full Of Payphones

Another installment in a potentially endless series of pictures and video clips featuring public pay telephones from when they were…

9 years ago

A Payphone Scene From “Taxi”, Season 1, Episode 1 (1978)

The first ever episode of "Taxi" (1978) revolves around a magical payphone that allows for free calls anywhere in the…

9 years ago

Christmas Music Heard Through a Steinway Street Payphone

I fed $3.75 into a Steinway Street payphone to record the Christmas music played over loudspeakers on that venue. Some…

9 years ago