Payphones Past

Payphone Pictures & Sounds

Today’s Payphone Tableau. Roosevelt Avenue, Corona, Queens.

An air conditioner. A football club. A bag of garbage. A green bucket. Oh, and a couple of working payphones…

6 years ago

Penn Station Payphones Disappearing

Development work at Penn Station has forced removal of about a ½ dozen working payphones. One of these phones was…

6 years ago

Phone Booth Hunting in Old School Yearbooks

Phone booth hunting in publicly posted college and high school yearbooks turned up some interesting stuff. Until the mid-2000s, if…

6 years ago

Creeper Phone Booth Scene From “The Boston Strangler” (1968)

I felt a little duped by this film. I stuck with this movie because I figured a serial killer flick…

6 years ago

Payphone Room at NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital

The payphone room at NYU Langone's Tisch Hospital today functions as more of a broom closet than a place to…

6 years ago

What To Do With a Two-Heads-Missing Print of Jim Munroe’s 1959 Phone Booth Stuffing Photo?

I own a two-heads-missing print of Jim Munroe's famous phone booth stuffing photo from 1959. My friend Chad Dickerson and…

6 years ago

Shogo Kubo, Guitarist at Penn Station, Heard Through a Payphone

I picked up a payphone and let it listen to the sweet sounds of Shogo Kubo, whose guitar stylings frequently…

6 years ago

Festering Beauties: Phone Booths at the 79th Street Boat Basin

Checked in on an old favorite today: The rotting, festering phone booths at the 79th Street Boat Basin. This is…

6 years ago

Phone Booth and Payphone Scenes From Pretty Poison (1968)

There is a distinct tongue motif in this film. Look for it at 2:50 & 2:57 in this clip.

6 years ago