This pagoda-topped payphone in Chinatown reminded me of a series of pictures sent to The Payphone Project many years ago. My friend Chris, over at Christop.com, was living in Paris during the World Cup in 1998, at which time France Telecom had embarked on a unique payphone-related public art project. In honour of the World…
This TCC Teleplex payphone is, for the season, nestled among some Christmas trees on Broadway in Astoria. The number for this payphone is (718) 956-5542 but bah, humbug, it rejects incoming calls. That’s too bad, as this location is an interesting spot even without the seasonal decorations. Happy Holidays from The Payphone Project!
I stood perfectly upright when I took this picture. The payphone enclosure was italic, tilted, skewed, and visibly hung over. I guess this payphone had been hit by a vehicle, or maybe there had been a rare, isolated earthquake that affected only payphones here on Greenpoint Avenue in Sunnyside (the Funny Side), Queens. Whatever happened…
This gutted out ghost of a payphone past has looked like this for over a year. Some might call this a “phone booth” but they would be mistaken. A “phone booth” is a structure with a door, a light, a fan, and possibly a local telephone book. Examples of New York City phone booths can…
Raynard Bagley sends this interesting photo, showing a phone booth in the North of Belgium. This old booth is steadily disappearing into a thicket of shrubs. Raynard’s photo of this overgrown Belgacom booth reminded me of a photo sent in a few years ago, showing a BT phone booth around the corner from Highgate in…
My friend Rachel directed me to these beautiful old phone booths at the Brooklyn Public Library. The lights are out and the fans do not blow air but the doors close and the phones work. These might be the most perfect booths in all of New York.
Daniel Zubiate, of Breakwell PictureZ, has been a long-time friend of the Payphone Project, and has lately been filling up the Texas Payphone Photos Section with recent shots of payphones in Buda, El Paso, and Austin. Among Daniel’s finds is this outdoor phone booth at the Salt Flat Café in Salt Flat, Texas. Texas is…
Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: “In my home town (well, city) of The Hague, the Netherlands, there are two booths right in front of the entrance to the Binnenhof, where the two chambers of parliament are housed and the prime minister has his office. “The interesting thing here is that the actual phone booth (the other…
Olivier Beyssac sent this e-mail: “I love your site. It reminded me of the strange feeling I had when seeing a phone booth a couple weeks ago in the French countryside.” Olivier’s e-mail (and the beautifully evocative phone booth photo which accompanied it) reminded me that I have been meaning to call out some of the…
By far the most impressive individual’s collection of payphone pictures I have seen in a long time, Loren Everly has travelled the world keeping an eye out for, among other things, phone booths and payphones. As the number of public phones decreases the cultural value of documenting their presence increases, making Loren’s photo collection both…