Payphones Past

First American Telecommunications Corp. Payphone. August, 2012.

This phone, seen in Elmhurst in August, 2012, is long gone, but the company that owned it still appears to be hanging on, just not in New York. Assuming their bleeding-edge-design website remains relevant it looks like First American Telecommunications now conducts all its payphone business in South Florida, with display advertising its main source of revenue. Their payphone photo page shows they also have, or at least used to have advertising-free clamshell phones, as well as a multi-purpose touchscreen payphone/internet/e-mail device the likes of which showed up at airports and convention centers in the late 1990 and early 2000s. I doubt any of those devices are still in use.

First American Telecommunications Corp. Payphone
First American Telecommunications Corp. Payphone
First American Telecommunications Corp. Payphone

First American was probably responsible for this payphone at Pennsylvania Avenue and 8th Street in Miami Beach. That phone was alive as recently as February but today it is dead.

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