Payphones of Journal Square, Jersey City
The Journal Square section of Jersey City, NJ, had an impressive quantity of working payphones, most of them owned by NewTel Payphone Operations.
212-477-3063 Revisited
The phone number 212-477-3063 seems to be showing up on a lot of people's CallerID. What is it again?
LinkNYC: Really Beautifying the Neighborhood
Some of New York's LinkNYC kiosks have taken to blasting a sort of visual noise that might drive anyone insane if they looked at it too long. Imagine having this right outside your living room window, as some New Yorkers now do.
LinkNYC Back to Beta?
For about a day it was possible to relive the glory days of accessing smut from the streets of New York City using a LinkNYC kiosk.
Payphone Locator for Hoboken, New Jersey
A trip to Hoboken turned up a surprising quantity of payphones, including relics of what were once considered the payphone of the future, from TCC Teleplex.
Phone Booths of Astoria, 1960s. Steinway Street Near Broadway.
I spotted these beautiful 1960s Manhattan phone booths while clicking through an underappreciated Facebook group called Astoria Beat.
Manhattan’s Last Outdoor Phone Booths: What’s The Deal?
One of the more oddball moves by the CityBridge consortium was its replacement of Manhattan's classic American Airlight style phone booths with Canadian models. Let's look at them.
Phone Booth at Mt. Ponpon in Kyoto, Japan
This phone booth on Mt. Ponpon in Kyoto, Japan, is filled with wasps. From the Sharing Kyoto Twitter page.
Phone Booths I, II, & III by HowNowVihao at deviantART
Red, White, and Light Purple seem to comprise the color theme for these two dancers occupying a duo of Manhattan payphone enclosures. This is an older photo from before these payphones were trashed and replaced by a LinkNYC monolith.
Phone Booth: Springfield, Oregon. From Instagram Photographer Breesalvatore
From Instagram photographer breesalvatore comes this black and white shot of a phone booth outside the Giant Burger in Springfield, Oregon.
When There’s No Man Around… 1960 Goodyear Commercial
When there's no man around ... you go to a phone booth to call one. That seems to be part of the message of what would today be considered a sexist Goodyear Tires commercial from 1960.
Jorge Vasconcelos: 42nd Street Phone Booths, 1985.
Photo is from November 25, 1985, by Jorge Vasconcelos. Please take a tour of his Flickr stream.
Kerala, India. Photo by Simon Raven.
A red payphone casts a long shadow in Kerala, India.
A Payphone in Maine
Mr Fitshace, at YouTube writes: While my family and I were vacationing in Maine I found a pay phone! It was attached to the Maine Diner. If you’re ever in the Wells Maine area I highly suggest eating there. The food is wicked good and the waitstaff are extremely nice 🙂
“The most important phonecalls are made at midnight.” Monedas Payphone, Mexico. Julie Cruz.
Journalist Julie Cruz is seen on Instagram talking late on a Monedas payphone in Playa Paraiso, Tulum, Mexico. A quick search on Monedas payphones led to an interesting resource.
Camp Rudder Phone Booths, Florida Panhandle. Photo by Tanja Kropf.
Camp Rudder, on the Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle, is home to this row of 7 phone booths. You just never know where you might find these things.
LinkNYC: Coming Soon To A Sidewalk Near You?
As announced, it looks like the LinkNYC program really will introduce numerous kiosks, potentially thousands of them, where no payphones had ever existed.
Talking on the PTS at LAX
The Kreller Girls found a bank of payphones at LAX. Great photo.
Rare K8 Phone Box. Onchan, Isle of Man. Photo by Simon Weller.
Instagram photographer Simon Weller encountered a rarity in the village of Onchan, on the Isle of Man: A fully functional K8 phone box with a working phone. Only 54 K8s are known to exist in the UK.
Pocono Raceway: “They Need To Bring These Back”
Watch a short video from a man who discovered a payphone at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PA.
NYC Phone Booth Roundup
Just a few sightings of phone booths around New York, with more to come.
Artist Benedetto Bufalino Has Created a Mobile Phone Booth.
Hey, why not?
Street Mule — And The Howler — Heard Through a Times Square Payphone
Listen in as a payphone call goes horribly wrong, blasting The Howler into a call which should have been free of such noise.
Ugly Mug Coffee Shop, Soquel, CA
A follower of the Payphone Project Facebook page shared this image from Soquel, California.
Two in a Row From Barbara Van der Aue
Phone booth photos from Michigan And Missouri, taken by a follower of the Payphone Project Facebook page.
Working Payphone Found at Skully’s in Columbus, Ohio
This photo by Twitter follower Brian Perera shows a phone booth with a working payphone inside. Spotted yesterday at Skully's Music-Diner in Columbus, Ohio.
Video Payphones: Are We There Yet?
The Picturephone scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey, released in 1968, shows what Stanley Kubrick thought payphones would look like a mere 33 years into the future. Kubrick’s payphone of the future not only made phone calls but showed full video of both parties.
West Virginia House For Sale, Phone Booth Included
This West Virginia house for sale might be a fixer-upper but it comes with an unusual perk: A phone booth with a working payphone right in the front yard.