Payphone Pusher
This is a film photo, shot with an old Minolta Maxxum 7000 SLR. I left imperfections and artifacts in the image to complement the ruggedness of the scene.
TCC Teleplex: Still Only 25¢
TCC Teleplex: Still Only 25¢
Gored. A Murdered Payphone Coinbox.
Payphone Still Life
Empire State Building Payphones. February, 2002.
Woody Allen: Manhattan.
A row of payphones, probably at Times Square, seen in the opening minutes of Woody Allen’s “Manhattan”.
Payphone: Archer, Nebraska
Daniel Zubiate shares this July, 2011, picture of a payphone in Archer, Nebraska. Daniel adds: “Not surprisingly, the phone didn’t work when I tested it.” Some years ago I went on a long road trip through Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming and West Virginia, snapping pictures of (among other things) Nebraska payphones and phone booths. I…
Phone booth at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse HI-AYH Hostel in Pescadero, California.
Tim W. shares this recent picture of a phone booth at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse HI-AYH Hostel in Pescadero, California.
Enfield, New Hampshire, Phone Booth
Geoffrey Niswander shares this phone booth photo from Enfield, New Hampshire: Mr. Niswadner writes: This one is on Route 4 in front of La Sallete, which is the regionally famous “12 Stations of the Cross”, directly across the road from the Enfield Shaker Village. Just two weeks ago I was able to share a…
New Hampshire Phone Booth, and Others
A friend sent me this photo of a phone booth in Randolph, New Hampshire: The booth is outside a Lowe’s gas station. Erica Avery says “The proprietress told us the phone company no longer gives them a cut of what they take in, but Lowe’s still didn’t want the phone booth removed.” It seems some…
The Phone Booths of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
George Peppard, looking a bit like Joe Buck in this screen grab from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, steps into one of a row of 6 outdoor metal phone booths in Manhattan. This is at about the 1:21 mark of the film, where Paul Varjak (played by Peppard) tries but fails to reach Holly Golightly, played by…
On the Phone
This is me in about 30 years. This picture shows an elderly man using a payphone in midtown Manhattan. He had a stack of papers in front of him, papers with hand-written notes, phone numbers, and scripts. He looked a bit like an Arthur Miller character, as will we all at certain stages of our…
“A Relic of the Past!”
“A Relic of the Past!” A woman yelled those words when she saw me taking pictures of these empty hulls of 9th Avenue payphones. Was she referring to the payphone, or to the nuclear family marching past? Maybe I should have asked.
Minolta Payphone (Film Photo)
There is a history between me and the Minolta Maxxum film SLR I carry around. Once in a while I use the old film camera to get pictures of payphones. Imagine that.
Cell Phone in Hand, Standing By the Payphone
Yellows
Titan360 Payphones: No Dial Tone
Payphone on the Wall. June 19, 2011.
Titan
Working the Payphone
Abandoned Payphone in a Cage
Who couldn’t love a payphone in a cage? This caged payphone has been useless for years, its body beaten and its dial tone and handset long gone. This abandoned payphone lingers as a monument to the faded and bedraggled world of public telephony. Its push-buttons are useless. Evidently someone attacked the phone, forcing the 9…
Smoking By the Payphone
Useless Payphone of the Moment. Midtown Manhattan. April 22, 2011.
Snowbound Payphones, Blizzard of 2010
Snowbound payphones were commonly seen around New York after the Christmas blizzard of 2010. Bike lanes were plowed before streets and sidewalks, so it should come as no surprise that public telephones received no special attention from the Department of Sanitation. Nevertheless, even in emergency conditions, folks still need to use the telephone. At least…
She’s Big News!
Talking on the Telebeam
I swear sometimes it seems shocking to see a human being use a public telephone in the 21st century. This gentleman’s casual use of a payphone looked to me like something from another generation, a man who stepped from the past into the directly exposed sunlight of modern times.
Iranian Phone Booth Seen In Abbas Kiarostami’s “Taste of Cherry”
Abbas Kiarostami’s “Taste of Cherry” is a favorite film of mine. The film puzzled and at times disappointed me, but the ending baffled me to a point of distraction. Early in the film appears a yellow Iranian phone booth. I assume it is either genuine or modeled on a real Iranian booth. Before this film…
Harrods Phone Booth. February, 2011.
A globe-trotting friend sent this picture of an ecclesiastical-looking phone booth at Harrods in London. To me this looks like a cross between a phone booth and a mausoleum. Maybe it’s a direct link to Dial-a-Prayer?