Payphones Past

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Chicago’s Vanishing Pay Telephones (2007)

This story, from Chicago's WGN television, is from 6 years ago but in many ways it could have been produced…

12 years ago

St. Maarten/St. Martin Payphone. November, 2013

Closeup of a payphone seen on the Caribbean Island of St. Maarten/St. Martin. November, 2013.

12 years ago

Upper East Side Payphone Customer

Try to imagine the story behind this well-dressed Upper East Side man using a payphone and toting a bottle of…

12 years ago

Payphone Innards

This shiny spool of metal wire, part of a payphone's innards, lay exposed for several weeks in a Manhattan subway…

12 years ago

Look Who Still Uses Payphones

This well-dressed Upper East side woman took a break from walking her dog to make a call from a Titan…

12 years ago

“Squeeze-Play Craze” Reaches Nebraska – April, 1959

The "Squeeze-Play" was the phone-booth-stuffing fad of the 1950s, made most famous by Life Magazine photographer Joe Munroe's iconic image.…

12 years ago

Operation Pay Phone (A CNN iReport)

This series of reports from CNN's iReport is from 2010, but it loses nothing for being a few years old.

12 years ago

Casino Queen Hits A Payphone Jackpot (Commercial)

The small but satisfying thrill of getting a quarter back from a payphone segues in to the more volcanic thrill…

12 years ago

Who Still Uses Payphones?

The Payphone Project's occasional reminder that people still use payphones.

12 years ago