Payphones Past

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Rotary Payphone Customer, 1973.

MEMBER OF THE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY OF SOUTH BEACH, 06/1973. ARC Identifier 548611 / Local Identifier 412-DA-6124. Item from Record Group…

11 years ago

The Forgotten World of the Payphone Hustler

The days of the "payphone hustler" at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal are long gone, but their memory survives…

11 years ago

Myanmar: Community Payphone Operator

About a decade ago satellite-powered community payphones exploded in popularity throughout Africa. The continent's virtually non-existent civilian landline infrastructure cried…

11 years ago

All Quiet On The Payphone Front

Lack of content updates at The Payphone Project site belie activities going on behind the scenes. A variety of other…

11 years ago

Brass Band at Times Square Subway, Heard Through a Payphone

Subway musicians sound different when heard through a payphone. Heck, everything sounds different when heard through the raspy, rugged, monochrome…

11 years ago

Val Vashon: Payphones Across America

Val Vashon writes: "I had to drive a TV satellite truck from Washington State to New Jersey for Superbowl coverage…

11 years ago

Short Film: The Last Phone Booth.

Creepy dealings inside a phone booth in Adirondack, New York. The film stars Dan Rebeiz and Caleb Rosenberg.

12 years ago

Abandoned Payphone. Flatbush, Brooklyn.

An abandoned payphone at 2130 Caton Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn

12 years ago

“I found your father!”

I spotted this man using a payphone on New Years Day, 2014. I thought he was saying "I PHONED YOUR…

12 years ago

Kabul, Afghanistan

Picture of an Afghan Telecom payphone. Kabul, Afghanistan.

12 years ago