Payphones Past

Payphone Pictures & Sounds

Phone Booth Scene From “The Open Road” (2009)

A mildly intriguing phone booth scene from an unremarkable movie had me asking more questions about payphones than about the…

5 years ago

Phone Booth Scene from “Strangers on a Train”

This scene doesn't seem like much but it does play a pretty important part in the overall plot of Hitchcock's…

5 years ago

Upstate New York Payphone Photos by Daniel Hopsicker

New York photos from a photographer who shares the same fascination with payphones and phone booths as I.

6 years ago

The Last Working Payphone in Central Park is No More

Of about a dozen or so payphones scattered throughout Central Park this one, at the Model Boat Sailing place, was…

6 years ago

Payphones of Roanoke, Virginia, by Daniel Hopsicker

Daniel Hopsicker has been taking pictures of payphones for a long time. Now he's sharing some of his work with…

6 years ago

Phone Booth Scene from “9½ Weeks”

The phone booth scene from "9½ Weeks" leaves viewers more with the idea of the phone booth, not its haunting…

6 years ago

Beautiful Phone Booth at Onderdonk & Brothers, Ridgewood

Something really does ignite in me when I encounter old wood phone booths like this one in Ridgewood, Queens.

6 years ago

Payphones of “Sorry Wrong Number” (1948)

Vestiges of payphone behavior from an earlier generation are seen in this set of excerpts from "Sorry Wrong Number", a…

6 years ago

Phone Booth Scene from “The Savage Eye”, 1960.

Barbara Baxley makes a phone call in the 1960 film "The Savage Eye".

6 years ago

Found a Payphone Scene in “The Big Easy”

Not a particularly remarkable appearance of a payphone in "The Big Easy" from 1986.

6 years ago