Abbott & Costello: ALexander 4444 (Payphone Sketch)
Funny sketch from Abbott and Costello, posted to Youtube by Kovacs Corner.
Abandoned Payphone. Outside a Car Wash.
It's a picture of one of the hundreds of abandoned payphone carcasses littering New York City's streets.
Surrender This Envelope To Get A $10 Rate
Manhattan payphones are being vandalized with stickers bearing a seemingly mysterious message. What does it mean?
Abandoned Payphone. Flatbush, Brooklyn.
An abandoned payphone at 2130 Caton Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn
“I found your father!”
I spotted this man using a payphone on New Years Day, 2014. I thought he was saying "I PHONED YOUR FATHER!" but I later decided he must have been saying "I FOUND YOUR FATHER!" before angrily hanging up the phone.
Kabul, Afghanistan
Picture of an Afghan Telecom payphone. Kabul, Afghanistan.
Chicago’s Vanishing Pay Telephones (2007)
This story, from Chicago's WGN television, is from 6 years ago but in many ways it could have been produced today.
“left to twirl a gap-toothed dial in some phone-booth”
"left to twirl a gap-toothed dial in some phone-booth". From "Postscriptum", by Joseph Brodsky.
St. Maarten/St. Martin Payphone. November, 2013
Closeup of a payphone seen on the Caribbean Island of St. Maarten/St. Martin. November, 2013.
Bell Canada Phone Booth. Montreal. August, 2013.
Paying Payphone Customer
A picture of a human being using a public pay telephone. A.D. 2013.
Times Square Payphone Customer
I actually had to wait in line to use this Times Square payphone last week.
Upper East Side Payphone Customer
Try to imagine the story behind this well-dressed Upper East Side man using a payphone and toting a bottle of wine from a nearby liquor store.
Payphone Innards
This shiny spool of metal wire, part of a payphone's innards, lay exposed for several weeks in a Manhattan subway station.
Look Who Still Uses Payphones
This well-dressed Upper East side woman took a break from walking her dog to make a call from a Titan payphone.
“Squeeze-Play Craze” Reaches Nebraska – April, 1959
The "Squeeze-Play" was the phone-booth-stuffing fad of the 1950s, made most famous by Life Magazine photographer Joe Munroe's iconic image. Here is another take on the phenomenon, by "The Daily Nebraskan" reporter John Hoerner.
Montreal Payphones
Having watched the precipitous decline of public telephones in New York City and throughout the United States I found it strangely gratifying to visit Montreal -- a town where the payphone infrastructure is, by comparison, frozen in time.
(212) 473-9148. McSorley’s Old Ale Pub. Vacuous Bloombergia Tourist Hell Hole.
(212) 473-9148. McSorley’s Old Ale Pub. Vacuous Tourist Bloombergia Hell Hole. This payphone accepts incoming calls. Happy at least to have had legitimate NYC reason to be here tonight. Next thing you know I will be riding the G train. Wait, what?
Chinatown, NYC: Pagoda Payphones Rediscovered
Bill Harris' "New York", a coffee table book published in 1979, captures some classic images of pre-Giuliani New York City. These images of Chinatown's pagoda-topped phone booths are among them.
Operation Pay Phone (A CNN iReport)
This series of reports from CNN's iReport is from 2010, but it loses nothing for being a few years old.
Casino Queen Hits A Payphone Jackpot (Commercial)
The small but satisfying thrill of getting a quarter back from a payphone segues in to the more volcanic thrill of hitting a jackpot.
Phreaking the Telebeam. October, 2013.
Youngsters catching up on their obsolete hack0r skillz
Who Still Uses Payphones?
The Payphone Project's occasional reminder that people still use payphones.
Life With Luigi – The Phone Booth (1952)
Luigi Bosco installs a phone booth in his antique shop to drum up business, but attracts nothing more than a common payphone hog.
The Phone Box (Poem)
A poem by Jax Leck.
Working Phone Box: Ilfracombe, In the County of Devon
Paul Voller writes with news of an actual working phone box in the south west of England. Mr. Voller notes that there was "No mobile reception" in the area, "so we enjoyed a decent holiday."
Seattle: Dial a Downtown Office Building!
Val Vashon checks in again from Seattle, Washington, with a random collection of payphones from the downtown core.
(765) 743-9120 – Stewart Center 1st floor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
David Moore shares this photo of a Frontier Communications payphone at Purdue University.