Fort Worth, Texas
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Radio Interference, Payphone Style
Even if you actually wanted to make a call from this payphone it would be very difficult to communicate with another human. Audio coming through the earpiece of this landline payphone (718-424-2798) at 82nd Place & 63rd Avenue in Queens was completely subsumed by the sound of Radio Disney. These unintended analogue overlaps, reminiscent of…
Circleville, West Virginia
Instagram photo by Leslie Litton. View this post on Instagram Doesn't work. LOL A post shared by Leslie King (@lesliekingpedals) on Sep 26, 2014 at 1:20pm PDT Instagram photo by Leslie Litton.
Phone
Instagram photo by Chris Ciesielski. View this post on Instagram phone #nofilter #phonebooth A post shared by Chris Ciesielski (@fac_33) on Sep 25, 2014 at 5:19pm PDT Instagram photo by Chris Ciesielski.
Chinatown, San Francisco. Photo by Fred Lyon.
1950s-era photo of a pagoda-topped payphone in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Photo by Fred Lyon, via Slate.com. 1950s-era photo of a pagoda-topped payphone in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Photo by Fred Lyon, via Slate.com. Originally posted in June, 2013, herewith follows a select list of links to photos of other pagoda styled payphones from around the Intertubes:…
…in red. Seoul, South Korea.
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Phone Booth In The Hedges
Instagram Photo By Kira Dinim. http://instagram.com/p/tZdaXnKzBj/ Instagram Photo By Kira Dinim.
At The Payphone
Instagram photo by NieNie Ward. View this post on Instagram #oldschool #payphone #changeplease #gottomakethatcall #lmao @font_goddess #insidejokes #hophone #callcollect A post shared by NieNie Ward (@officespace) on Aug 26, 2014 at 6:48pm PDT Instagram photo by NieNie Ward.
Phone Booth, 1980. Photo by John Goodman.
Phone Booth, 1980. Photo by John Goodman. Phone Booth, 1980. Photo by John Goodman.
coin release.
500px.com photo by Mike.
Trailer for “Hang Up” – A Payphone Documentary
Earlier this year John Porter (of East Harlem Unity Communications) and I appeared in “Hang Up” – a payphone documentary directed by French film maker Ugo Massa. The short film premiered at “The Auditorium” on May 27, opening the “Truth Be Told Festival” at The New School. The film is not yet available to the…
Using A Payphone In 2014 Can Only Mean…
Instagram photo by Bryan Rutledge. View this post on Instagram Using a payphone in 2014 can only mean one of two things. You're either calling your Pimp or calling your Crystal meth dealer. #PayPhone #WhoTheFuckStillUsesAPayPhone #Pimp #Meth #Quincy #Massachusetts A post shared by Bryan Rutledge (@bryanrutledge) on Sep 26, 2014 at 3:35pm PDT Instagram photo…
Une vie après l’Homme, cabine téléphonique – Life after people, phone booth.
Flickr photo by Fœtal ( Eric M. ) Flickr photo by Fœtal ( Eric M. )
Washington State Fairgrounds: Payphone Accepts Incoming Calls: 253-848-0302
This payphone/TTY accepts incoming calls, and according to contributor Bruce Hart it rings loud and clear. I called the number and it rang four or five times before going to its internal modem. [alert_box style=”info” close=”no” custom_class=””]Why do I hear a FAX signal when I call a payphone?[/alert_box]Most payphones these days are programmed to reject…
Public Telephone, 5¢.
Flickr photo by Sandy Miles. Flickr photo by Sandy Miles.
Ferrara, Italy.
500px.com photo by Britta Hershman.
1980s British Rotary Dial Payphone
Instagram photo by 80sNostalgia. View this post on Instagram Pay phones in bright red phone boxes. A post shared by 80sNostalgia (@80snostalgia) on Sep 14, 2014 at 1:39am PDT Instagram photo by 80sNostalgia.
Bangalor, India.
Flickr photo by Karthick K.a. Flickr photo by Karthick K.a.
Phone Box at Tyneham, the “Lost Village” of Dorset, England.
Flickr photo by Terry Roberts. Like everything else at Tyneham the outdoor telephone box seen in this photo has been frozen in time since 1943. It was in December of that year that the last residents of Tyneham left the village under the orders of Britain’s Southern Command, which needed the land to coördinate the…
Remember Using a Payphone?
Flickr photo by Anthony Willis Flickr photo by Anthony Willis
“The Pay Phone Man” – 2012
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Rockefeller Center
India: “Use Only New One Rupee Coins.” Jodhpur, Rahasthan
Instagram photo by Arence Chouhan. http://instagram.com/p/qZj9IVKl1J/
Bell Telephone Magazine, 1943.
These photos appeared in the February, 1943, edition of “Bell Telephone Magazine”, accompanying an article titled “Camp Telephone Managers Render an Important Service”. The photos and captions paint a picture of the role public telephones played in military life during World War II. The photos also show what typical public telephone rooms and facilities were…
Old Rotary Dial Italian Payphone
Vintage rotary dial Italian payphone at a Rockaway Beach thrift shop, Queens, New York. Instagram photo by CHRISSYNEAFSEY. View this post on Instagram #tagsale #sundaymorning I can make my calls on this #Italian #payphone #rockawaybeach #nyc #nofilter #inlaws A post shared by chrissyneafsey (@chrissyneafsey) on Jul 13, 2014 at 7:24am PDT
Pac Bell. Justin Brown
500px.com photo by Justin Brown.
Wet Call. Costa Rica.
500px.com photo by Daniel Berner.
Atlantic City Payphones. September, 2014.
Two nights in Atlantic City, New Jersey, turned up a few payphone sightings along the way. This was a vacation, so I did not commit substantial energies to payphone hunting. These are the payphones I spotted en route to Resorts, Taj Mahal, Caesars, and the fewer and fewer surviving casinii of Atlantic City, New Jersey.…