I spotted this payphone in October (on 10/10/2010, to be exact). Something tells me that when I pass this spot again this payphone hulk so ignominiously suffocating under a plastic bag will be gone. Payphones like this, stuffed into alleyways and in the free spaces between buildings, are increasingly hard to find. I hope to…
From Lenny (1974), starring Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce and Valerie Perrin as his wife/ex-wife Honey. In this scene Honey calls collect from a payphone to tell Lenny that she has some good, if oft-repeated news, and to ask for money. Lenny promises to send as much money as he can, and he tells Honey…
Travis Bickle at a Manhattan payphone, asking Betsy if she got the flowers he sent.
The style of green Manhattan phone booths I spotted a few weeks ago are seen throughout the “Midnight Cowboy”, the 1969 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight. The paper covering the payphone in the first of these booths (across from the Plaza Hotel) show how payphones in the 1960s were, like the payphones of…
Wood booths like this remain relatively common at older restaurants and bars around town. Most of NYC's old phone booths have been converted to closets or, as in this instance, a display case for holiday cheer. Cell phone users sometimes retreat to these old booths to get away from the noise, and amorous couples sometimes duck in to use the booths as makeout chambers.
People Still Use Payphones.
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A swirl of New York Telephone, Bell Atlantic, and Verizon brands is seen on this NYC payphone.
A few months ago, in an exchange of photos between this web site and Turk Telecom, I snapped several shots of payphone display advertising in Manhattan. In exchange for these photos Turk Telecom sent over photos from its recent series of phone booths decorated with country-specific art for the 2010 FIBA World Cup. Each of these booths is topped by a likeness of a country's landmark.
People Still Use Payphones
A friend sends these photos of an overgrown, forgotten phone booth in Wales. There is still a payphone in this booth.
Possibly the most famous phone booth scene in all moviedom, this screengrab from Hitchcock's "The Birds" shows a three-slot rotary dial payphone inside a phone booth that is soon pummeled -- pummeled -- by birds.
I started collecting sounds of payphones, and I shall begin sharing this ongoing collection with a signal rarely-heard today: the chirping, synthetic sound of a ringing payphone. Click to listen: An interesting thing about this particular payphone heard in this sample is that it accepts incoming calls, but with a catch: the person who answers…
Spotted a payphone factory today. Wow!
An anonymous correspondent writes: When I saw the telephone icon sign from a block away, I thought I’d get to take a photo of an actual public phone for this site…only to get closer and see the sign is false advertising. Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 2010Lake Street & Minnehaha Avenue outside of a liquor store.
An anonymous correspondent writes: “The exponential increase of cell phones, even in the ancient town of Nablus, is likely the reason for the removal of this phone outside of the Jasmine Hotel.” Nablus, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories. March 2010.
I see a face crying out from the basin of this gutted payphone. This face has its mouth opened wide, the wire of communication blurts uselessly forth. The face’s nose is flattened to one side and its screw-for-eyebrows are stuck in place over glassy, tear-filled eyes. I can’t decide what this face is trying to…
One of the more unusual outdoor payphone enclosures I’ve seen in these parts is this Verizon payphone at Carl R. Sohncke Square on Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. Stuck into a green, rectangular box, this homely payphone works great, but if you call it at (718) 429-8307 you will find that it accepts no incoming…