Ace Cash Express. Daily Payphone – May 22, 2014.
Instagram photo by nicholasasayers.
Old Adelaide Gaol. Daily Payphone – May 21, 2014.
A payphone at the Old Adelaide Gaol, sitting unused since the gaol was closed in 1988. Flickr photo by Martin Kenny.
Plastic Bubble Phone Booth Of The Future (1958)
Photo from Modern Mechanix:
Is New York’s “Free Wi-Fi Everywhere” Plan Realistic?
Last month the city of New York reïssued its dataset and map of public pay telephone (PPT) locations. The dataset was originally published after Superstorm Sandy, an event which prompted me to resubmit my erstwhile ignored request for release of this data several months earlier. I do not assume I was the only influence in…
Futuristic Family Telephone Booth. World’s Fair, 1938-1939.
From CLICK!, at Photography.SI.edu.
Remote Phone Booth In Deepest Ulster, Northern Ireland. Daily Payphone – May 16, 2014
Photo by JUABROAD at trekearth.com.
Kuwait Phone Booths. Daily Payphone. May 15, 2014
Instagram photo by bintilkuwait90. http://instagram.com/p/nsT0NhRHt9/
Payphone With Trout. Daily Payphone – May 14, 2014.
Flickr photo by forkergirl
Death Valley, California. Daily Payphone – May 13, 2014.
Instagram photo by thomasmaksymowicz. View this post on Instagram #phonebooth in the middle of the #desert #deathvalley A post shared by Tomasz Slavik (@tomaszslavik) on Jan 21, 2014 at 6:26pm PST
Cairns, Australia. “Gold Phone.”
Instagram photo by soulsisterbrownsugar http://instagram.com/p/nsTN_QMBI9/
Holmes County Ohio. Daily Payphone, May 8 2014
Flickr photo by Jerry Cook
Australia’s Royal Melbourne Hospital. Daily Payphone, May 7, 2014.
Instagram photo by kylie_louise_. http://instagram.com/p/iDYa6rgP-j/
Payphone Hiatus (Or Not)
The Payphone Project will be on auto-pilot for the next few weeks (or months) as I re-introduce the “Daily Payphone” feature from The Payphone Project’s Facebook Page. Every weekday since last year I’ve curated a series of carefully selected images of public telephones, phone booths, and anything to do with payphones around the world (with occasional…
The RFK/Triborough Bridge’s LifeNet Phone: It’s Still Not There.
A few years ago I contacted New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority to inquire about a curious piece of signage near the midpoint of the Bronx-bound RFK/Triborough Bridge. Motorists and pedestrians entering the Bronx from Queens are greeted with a highly-placed (but not highly inspirational) message: “LIFE IS WORTH LIVING”. The sign, directed at emotionally…
Mobile Phone Booth, Gallant Eagle 86.
A mobile phone booth is set up at a signal site used by the 86th Signal Battalion during Exercise GALLANT EAGLE 86.
Do Payphones Still Exist?
Rotary Payphone Customer, 1973.
MEMBER OF THE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY OF SOUTH BEACH, 06/1973. ARC Identifier 548611 / Local Identifier 412-DA-6124. Item from Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 – 2006
The Forgotten World of the Payphone Hustler
The days of the "payphone hustler" at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal are long gone, but their memory survives in an interesting essay by Gisela Bichler and Ronald V. Clarke.
Myanmar: Community Payphone Operator
About a decade ago satellite-powered community payphones exploded in popularity throughout Africa. The continent’s virtually non-existent civilian landline infrastructure cried out for wireless- and satellite-powered innovation to bring telephony to huge populations that lacked such service. Companies like Tellumat, MTN, and Remkor Technologies brought GSM-powered mobile phone booths to countries like Benin, Uganda, Rwanda, and Senegal. Tellumat had…
All Quiet On The Payphone Front
Lack of content updates at The Payphone Project site belie activities going on behind the scenes. A variety of other pursuits, some payphone-related and others not, have absorbed most if not all of my overextended mental and temporal energies the last several weeks. After much consternation (induced by generally bad planning) a long-anticipated change to…
Pay Phone Hidden Inside a Jersey City Business
Val Vashon writes again with this payphone discovery in Jersey City, New Jersey. While walking to the laundromat in Jersey City during my recent visit for the Super Bowl, I noticed this sign above Henderson Lumber Mills: I had assumed that this was above a long missing phone booth. But the roll up door was open,…
Brass Band at Times Square Subway, Heard Through a Payphone
Subway musicians sound different when heard through a payphone. Heck, everything sounds different when heard through the raspy, rugged, monochrome sound of the landline. I caught this brass band at the Times Square station and picked up the nearest payphone to call it in.
1943: WOrth 2-8354, Rotary Dial Payphone
Shorpy.com features a 1943 photo of a young sailor using a rotary-dial payphone marked with a phone number in the old Telephone Exchange Name format.
Val Vashon: Payphones Across America
Val Vashon writes: "I had to drive a TV satellite truck from Washington State to New Jersey for Superbowl coverage for the local station that I work for. Tried to take a few pay phone pictures along the way."
“La Cabina” (1972)
"La Cabina" ("The Telephone Box") is a short Spanish film from 1972 directed by Antonio Mercero and starring José Luis López Vázquez. Vázquez, whose character spends most of the film's 35 minutes trapped inside a phone booth, plays the un-named "Hombre de la cabina (Man in the Phone Box)".
Glamour Job: MTA Subway Payphone Inspector
I spotted this gentleman some months ago, performing a job I did not think actually existed. A Metropolitan Transit Authority Subway Payphone Inspector is seen here punching in a series of test codes to verify the functionality of a public telephone TDD/TTY device at the 14th Street/Union Square subway station.
Short Film: The Last Phone Booth.
Creepy dealings inside a phone booth in Adirondack, New York. The film stars Dan Rebeiz and Caleb Rosenberg.
Guildford, England. Payphone Action Shot.
"This phone box stands alone outside of Guildford's local magistrates court and car park. I often see people using it - often young and well dressed people (not the usual stereotypes that one associates with payphone usage in this part of the world)."