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Save Public Telephones!

Some who regarded them as irrelevant now may recognize that wholesale routing out of public telephones has created dangers to…

13 years ago

Payphones News From Texas, Canada, and Brazil

A summary of recent payphone news looks at stories from San Antonio, Canada, and Brazil.

13 years ago

Out of Change?

Out of change? Need to make a phone call? This abandoned payphone in Long Island City, Queens, would be no…

13 years ago

SKUZZ Payphone

The name sayzz it all.

13 years ago

Dialing Instructions, Coastal Communications Payphone

For local calls - Deposit 25¢ for 3 minutes, dial number (Overtime is 10ยข for an additional 2 minutes). NOTE:…

13 years ago

Payphone Profundity

I interpret this vigorous scrawl of vandalism as an expression of the cacophonous noise of silence and an inability to…

13 years ago

1961 Bell Telephone Ad: This was the first telephone booth

It was "invented" in 1877, two years after the telephone itself. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson, his assistant,…

13 years ago

Payphone Users Revisited

Do Payphones Still Exist? Do People Still Use Payphones? Yes, and Yes.

13 years ago

Minerva Cuevas: “Free calls”.

"The free pay phone is a powerful piece, the equivalent of an art-world bomb aimed at the web of private…

13 years ago

Weburbanist: 20 Abandoned Payphones

Weburbanist borrows a few pictures from the Payphone Project and other sources in this showcase of abandoned payphones.

13 years ago