By far the most impressive individual’s collection of payphone pictures I have seen in a long time, Loren Everly has travelled the world keeping an eye out for, among other things, phone booths and payphones.
As the number of public phones decreases the cultural value of documenting their presence increases, making Loren’s photo collection both unique and valuable.
Of special interest to me are the three photos of Laotian payphones. I lived in Laos as a child and hope to return someday.
Have fun browsing his site, which includes payphones from Belarus, Belgium, Botswana, Burma, Bulgaria — and that’s just the countries starting with “B” — then check out the rest of his site, which includes lots of interesting accounts of travels throughout the world. If you’re like me you’ll end up with quite the travel bug.
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These charmers are a recent discovery for me.
https://youtu.be/ajkLQ3RJrsY I procured a VCR for the purpose of digitizing some of my old VHS…
https://youtu.be/0tUj9-TonbY Starts at the Fordham Road subway, where one of the phones I looked at…
An unexpected payphone find in Ozone Park, Queens, led to a trip through its Streetview…