Call Mom? Payphone’s Gone. Can’t Call Mom When The Payphone’s Gone!
You can't call mom from this emptied payphone enclosure. But I did use it as a springboard for an opaque update of sorts on what I'm doing around here these days.
DITCHED! Payphones are Crumbling – The Vista Press
Hear, hear: Alex Hughes — April 2018… If there are going to be physical payphones then they should be in working order to provide the consumer with the ability to make calls. An empty phonebook or broken handsets make that experience even tougher. Granted, there are not as many callers as there once were, but there…
Remembering the KILL Payphone
A picture I posted to sorabji.com in December, 2002, of a payphone covered with one vandal's attempt to capture the zeitgeist of the post-9/11 era.
LinkNYC’s Bugged-Out Mapping App Saves Your Searches… Sometimes
People look at me using LinkNYC kiosks and I know what they are thinking: He's poor. He's homeless. He's a crusty. I'm just doing my thing, man.
What Does a Payphone Call Sound Like?
My voice sounds mighty different through this payphone when compared to being captured by decent audio gear. Listen in.
Greeley Square Payphone
Red white and black graf on a Greeley Square payphone
Payphone At The End Of The R, Starring 1-800-MAX-SAVE
An abandoned Verizon payphone in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, leads to a somewhat interesting tale of the alleged theft of a toll-free number used by a suicide prevention and counseling ministry.
LinkNYC: Speedtest, The Path To Porn Revisited, And More
The Path To Porn via LinkNYC kiosk tablets was not fully closed, I discovered. I followed a hunch and the next thing I knew I was looking at trannie scat porn on a LinkNYC tablet screen out on a city sidewalk.
$1 For Two Minutes? That’s Survival Mode.
It looks like I might have made my last phone call from the last payphone at Rockefeller Center after PTS increased the cost of a local call by over 1400%.
He’s Still Listening … Tim Perdue
Echoes of "This Phone is Tapped" inform this pair of then-and-now photos from Flickr photographer Tim Perdue.
Laidric Stevenson – Night Call
Payphones around Texas. What’s left of them, that is. Photos by Laidric Stevenson. Find lots more Texas payphone photos at Laidric Stevenson – Night Call
Living on LinkNYC
My sudden interest in using LinkNYC kiosks led me to discover that the mapping app no longer works as advertised.
Payphoneless Enclosure Lurks Near Headless Mannequins
I saw this abandoned payphone enclosure on 41st and Baxter Avenues in Elmhurst and thought it looked like the empty enclosure was waiting to pounce on the headless mannequins idling around the corner. No such melee ensued.
Payphone Gone
Payphones are not dead yet. Here is a shot of the innards of a payphone enclosure minus the payphone, graffiti artistically swirled around what I interpret as eyes and a gasping mouth of a communications portal removed.
Payphone key to 10-year mystery | Central Telegraph
How many phone booths and payphones are central to stories of crime and intrigue? Many, of course, among them the kidnapping plot involving Calvin Klein which I wrote about in 2016, a story I was surprised to discover was not better known. Here is another appearance of a phone booth in crime from Australia, this…
Denver Art Museum’s “Psychedelic Experience” Phone Booths, 2009
A video playlist of 25 short recordings from an interactive piece involving phone booths at the Denver Art Museum's "Psychedelic Experience" exhibit in 2009. Also included is video of a woman confessing to having helped kill a homeless man in Central Park.
Phone Booth Scenes from “The Accused” (1988)
The same phone booth makes two appearances in "The Accused", the 1988 film starring Kelly McGillis and Jodie Foster. In the opening moments Ken Joyce, played by Bernie Coulson, is seen racing from a bar to make a 911 emergency call from the phone booth across the street.
Phone Booth Scene from Steven Spielberg’s “Duel” (1971)
Here is a cool phone booth scene from Steven Spielberg's "Duel", starring Dennis Weaver. This was Spielberg's first full-length film, which aired on television in 1971.
The Payphone of “Dead Ringers”
A payphone makes a brief, portentous appearance at the end of David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" (1988).
Drumming Up the Links
Call quality on LinkNYC kiosks is generally very bad, and has actually gotten worse in recent months since CityBridge, the company that owns the kiosks, has decided to set a majority of the devices so the volume can only be turned up half way. I tried making calls from kiosks in noisy spots and found…
Payphones of “Cat People” (1982)
It is not the most memorable scene from the 1982 film Cat People, starring Nastassia Kinsky and Malcolm McDowell, but its use of payphones in the opening scene at the New Orleans Airport is enough for a mention at The Payphone Project.
Two Years of LinkNYC
It has been a couple of years since CityBridge commenced its raid of New York City’s sidewalks with its so-called “payphone of the future”, the 10-foot tall electronic billboard monoliths known as LinkNYC. The LinkNYC platform is, first and foremost, an advertising platform. But the kiosks also offer a number of public amenities, such as…
Payphones Seen in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan”
I grabbed screenshots of some of the more interesting appearances of payphones in"Manhattan", the 1979 film directed (in black and white) by Woody Allen.
New Year, Old Payphones
When I first heard about 80s.nyc, a Streetview for NYC in the 1980s, I thought it sounded like inspiration for an extended dream sequence from "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer". I went out clicking for payphones and phone booths, and found quite a few. It was good fun, even if it chewed up a little too much time.
Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars – Motherboard
“Payphones are out here making money while some of the newest, hottest, and most ‘successful’ tech companies around are still figuring out how to get their revenues to climb ahead of their yearly losses.”
A Phone Booth at Journal Square: P.J. Ryan’s Squared
I spotted an old wood phone booth at PJ Ryan's Squared, a bar at the Journal Square PATH Station in Jersey City, NJ. No payphone, but an old rotary dial device holds down the fort.
Jerry Seinfeld: Pay Phone Standup Routine (1984)
Most folks under the age of 40 would probably have no idea what Jerry Seinfeld is talking about in this short comedy clip from 1984. The payphone-related behaviors recounted have largely vanished.
Minnesotans: Call 507-881-0051, Tell Your Story to the Lanesboro Phone Booth
As part of a storytelling project Lanesboro Arts is launching Saturday, a decommissioned payphone in downtown Lanesboro will play a rotating selection of stories about life in the southeastern Minnesota town. Read more at the Austin Daily Herald The first attempt I knew of to turn payphones into storytelling conduits such as the one in…