It’s Payphone Mulching Season
This Christmas tree was left curbside to be picked up by the Sanitation Department for mulching and recycling. I would not be too surprised if they hauled off the payphone while they're at it.
Who Still Uses Payphones?
Young woman using a payphone as her infant child looks on. October, 2012. Believe it or not, folks, people still use payphones.
Jaisalmer, India. Near the Thar Desert at Jaisalmer Fort.
Payphone at Jaisalmer Fort, near the Pakistan border, in India.
LOUD
LOUD. Press to Change Volume
Pyongyang, North Korea
Pyongyang, North Korea Payphone
Alfred Hitchcock: Phone Booth Scene from “The Birds”
The Payphone Project steps through the famous phone booth scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"
People Still Use Payphones.
People still use payphones.
Out of Change?
Out of change? Need to make a phone call? This abandoned payphone in Long Island City, Queens, would be no good if you had all the change in the world.
SKUZZ Payphone
The name sayzz it all.
Payphone Users Revisited
Do Payphones Still Exist? Do People Still Use Payphones? Yes, and Yes.
New Public Telephones. Bell Telephone System, 1960
This 1960 advertisement, directed at city planners, promotes three models of public telephone offered by Bell Telephone System at the time. All three styles of public telephone seen in this advertisement can still be found in use today.
(212) 246-9617. 57th Street N/Q/R Subway Station, South End.
Re-touched picture of a payphone at a midtown N/Q/R subway station. Look for more pictures of New York City payphones, and of payphones from all 7 continents, at PayphonePictures.com.
Weburbanist: 20 Abandoned Payphones
Weburbanist borrows a few pictures from the Payphone Project and other sources in this showcase of abandoned payphones.
(212) 599-9801, Across from the United Nations
Here is a payphone number and location I wish I had posted a long time ago. Evidently this payphone was used by a runaway to call her mother, who turned to the Internet hoping someone could offer more information about the payphone's exact location.
(212) 239-1242
Manhattan payphone with phone number hand-written on its face: (212) 239-1242
C’mon, Verizon, Eat My Coin. You’ve Done It So Many Times Before, Why Is It So Hard This Time? Go Ahead… Take It!
Verizon has left its public telephones out to dry. These non-working Verizon payphones will still eat your money. Those that can't, like this one, will at least try.
Just Give Me a Device That Lets Me Make a Telephone Call
Some people complain when their Galaxy Note is bigger than their face. Others complain when their smartphones outsmart them. Others are happy to have access to a phone that works, even a busted up payphone like this that has no cover on the earpiece.
Payphone Tongue and Clasps. (212) 221—–
Close-up of another non-working Verizon payphone on 42nd Street in Manhattan. June, 2012.
CALL USA (Caribbean Payphone)
Picture of a Caribbean Island Payphone, with links to more.
Northern Boulevard Payphone. June, 2012.
Picture of an abandoned payphone on Northern Boulevard in Queens, NYC.
Last Phone Booths in Santa Cruz County
Payphone trivia and phone booth pictures from Central California.
(718) 699-8824. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Payphone
Another non-working Verizon payphone. March, 2012.
Who Still Uses Payphones?
Payphones (the ones that actually work) appear to be anything but silent in New York City. Today's payphone user does not fit a single demographic or stereotype. Payphones today are used by children, the elderly, and all age ranges in between.
I thought I lost this picture. 1990-something. I love this picture so much.
I thought I lost this picture to a discarded floppy disk. I love this payphone picture so much. It is from 1990-something.
Vector Media Payphone. Queens Boulevard. May, 2012.
Vector Media Payphone. Queens Boulevard. May, 2012.
El Paso Payphone. 2008.
El Paso, Texas. Across the street from Luby's. October, 2008
Dial 0
Dial 0. As in Zero. Null. Void. Nothing. Dial a non-number. Dial dial dial dial. Dial that 0. (Speaking of zero, speaking of death, speaking of the nothing that arises from nothing, I had some health scares the last 2-3 months. I hope you are doing better than all this. Blargh.)
People on the Telephone
Two human beings talking on the telephone. Midtown Manhattan