Payphones Past

This is me in about 30 years.

This picture shows an elderly man using a payphone in midtown Manhattan. He had a stack of papers in front of him, papers with hand-written notes, phone numbers, and scripts.

He looked a bit like an Arthur Miller character, as will we all at certain stages of our lives.

(Some comments from me in the next 48 hours regarding the failure of cell phones carriers and the need for payphones after today’s insignificant but thought-provoking east coast earthquake.)

Me in 30 Years, on the Payphone
the payphone project

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