Uncategorized – The Payphone Project

Rotary Payphone Customer, 1973.

the payphone project — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:00:00 +0000

MEMBER OF THE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY OF SOUTH BEACH, 06/1973. ARC Identifier 548611 / Local Identifier 412-DA-6124. Item from Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 – 2006

The Forgotten World of the Payphone Hustler

the payphone project — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:43:48 +0000

The days of the "payphone hustler" at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal are long gone, but their memory survives in an interesting essay by Gisela Bichler and Ronald V. Clarke.

Myanmar: Community Payphone Operator

the payphone project — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:49:06 +0000

About a decade ago satellite-powered community payphones exploded in popularity throughout Africa. The continent’s virtually non-existent civilian landline infrastructure cried out for wireless- and satellite-powered innovation to bring telephony to huge populations that lacked such service. Companies like Tellumat, MTN, and Remkor Technologies brought GSM-powered mobile phone booths to countries like Benin, Uganda, Rwanda, and Senegal. Tellumat had…

All Quiet On The Payphone Front

the payphone project — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:05:27 +0000

Lack of content updates at The Payphone Project site belie activities going on behind the scenes. A variety of other pursuits, some payphone-related and others not, have absorbed most if not all of my overextended mental and temporal energies the last several weeks. After much consternation (induced by generally bad planning) a long-anticipated change to…

Brass Band at Times Square Subway, Heard Through a Payphone

the payphone project — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 04:20:03 +0000

Subway musicians sound different when heard through a payphone. Heck, everything sounds different when heard through the raspy, rugged, monochrome sound of the landline. I caught this brass band at the Times Square station and picked up the nearest payphone to call it in.

Val Vashon: Payphones Across America

the payphone project — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:41:21 +0000

Val Vashon writes: "I had to drive a TV satellite truck from Washington State to New Jersey for Superbowl coverage for the local station that I work for. Tried to take a few pay phone pictures along the way."

Short Film: The Last Phone Booth.

the payphone project — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:19:53 +0000

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

Abandoned Payphone. Flatbush, Brooklyn.

the payphone project — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:04:14 +0000

An abandoned payphone at 2130 Caton Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn

“I found your father!”

the payphone project — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 20:38:49 +0000

I spotted this man using a payphone on New Years Day, 2014. I thought he was saying "I PHONED YOUR FATHER!" but I later decided he must have been saying "I FOUND YOUR FATHER!" before angrily hanging up the phone.

Kabul, Afghanistan

the payphone project — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:19:27 +0000

Picture of an Afghan Telecom payphone. Kabul, Afghanistan.

Chicago’s Vanishing Pay Telephones (2007)

the payphone project — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:03:33 +0000

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

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

the payphone project — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:25:38 +0000

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

Bell Canada Phone Booth. Montreal. August, 2013.

the payphone project — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:05:18 +0000

Upper East Side Payphone Customer

the payphone project — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:35:21 +0000

Try to imagine the story behind this well-dressed Upper East Side man using a payphone and toting a bottle of wine from a nearby liquor store.

Payphone Innards

the payphone project — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 06:47:28 +0000

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