Payphones Past

Payphone Pictures & Sounds

Payphones of Philadelphia. August, 2015.

Philadelphia, a city of two million, has a fair share of payphones on its city streets, at least in the…

10 years ago

The Saw Lady Heard Through a Payphone

The Payphone Project caught up with Natalia Paruz, the New York City street musician known as The Saw Lady, as…

10 years ago

1987: New York City Payphone Users

This photo of two random New Yorkers carrying on unrelated conversations within spitting distance of each other using New York…

10 years ago

The Sid Tuchman Mystery Solved, 25 Years Later.

Sid Tuchman. For 25 years that name haunted me. Sid was at the center of a moment which is, 2½…

10 years ago

Caller ID, Payphones, and Fictitious 555 Numbers.

I spotted this discussion, which focuses on the question of what shows up on caller ID when one receives a…

10 years ago

Concord, Vermont. FairPoint Communications Phone Booth.

Erica Avery checks in again with these shots of a phone booth outside a FairPoint Communications building in Concord, Vermont.…

10 years ago

Sesame Street: Grover at the Phone Booth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdmfAdsr1iY

10 years ago

1992: Dave Letterman Calls a Times Square Payphone

https://youtu.be/LxyV-e9cub0?t=2m17s David Letterman's telephone routines are, in my opinion, among the funniest bits he ever did in his 32 years…

10 years ago