Payphone Profundity
I interpret this vigorous scrawl of vandalism as an expression of the cacophonous noise of silence and an inability to communicate in today's world of public telephones.
1961 Bell Telephone Ad: This was the first telephone booth
It was "invented" in 1877, two years after the telephone itself. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson, his assistant, were making intercity tests which required shouting into the primitive instrument. This annoyed their Boston landlady.
Payphone Users Revisited
Do Payphones Still Exist? Do People Still Use Payphones? Yes, and Yes.
Minerva Cuevas: “Free calls”.
"The free pay phone is a powerful piece, the equivalent of an art-world bomb aimed at the web of private financial structures that profit from our 21st century need for telecommunicating with loved ones."
New Public Telephones. Bell Telephone System, 1960
This 1960 advertisement, directed at city planners, promotes three models of public telephone offered by Bell Telephone System at the time. All three styles of public telephone seen in this advertisement can still be found in use today.
(212) 246-9617. 57th Street N/Q/R Subway Station, South End.
Re-touched picture of a payphone at a midtown N/Q/R subway station. Look for more pictures of New York City payphones, and of payphones from all 7 continents, at PayphonePictures.com.
NYC: Free Wi-Fi. Why? Fie!
The recent announcement that a small number of the New York City's payphone enclosures had been crowned with Wi-Fi antennæ seemed to attract a level of attention out of proportion to its real significance.
Weburbanist: 20 Abandoned Payphones
Weburbanist borrows a few pictures from the Payphone Project and other sources in this showcase of abandoned payphones.
(212) 599-9801, Across from the United Nations
Here is a payphone number and location I wish I had posted a long time ago. Evidently this payphone was used by a runaway to call her mother, who turned to the Internet hoping someone could offer more information about the payphone's exact location.
Penn Station: Payphone Ghetto
This looks like an image from an earlier generation. The harried businessman, travelling through New York, rushes to a payphone at a busy transit hub and consults his notes, looking for a phone number.
(212) 239-1242
Manhattan payphone with phone number hand-written on its face: (212) 239-1242
Who Called Me From (702) 992-9550?
I didn't do it. But if someone appears to have called you from (702) 992-9550 in Las Vegas, Nevada, then things are probably not as they appear. The call could have originated from Sin City but it is far more likely that you got a call from a payphone located somewhere else out there in the United States of America.
C’mon, Verizon, Eat My Coin. You’ve Done It So Many Times Before, Why Is It So Hard This Time? Go Ahead… Take It!
Verizon has left its public telephones out to dry. These non-working Verizon payphones will still eat your money. Those that can't, like this one, will at least try.
Just Give Me a Device That Lets Me Make a Telephone Call
Some people complain when their Galaxy Note is bigger than their face. Others complain when their smartphones outsmart them. Others are happy to have access to a phone that works, even a busted up payphone like this that has no cover on the earpiece.
Payphone Tongue and Clasps. (212) 221—–
Close-up of another non-working Verizon payphone on 42nd Street in Manhattan. June, 2012.
CALL USA (Caribbean Payphone)
Picture of a Caribbean Island Payphone, with links to more.
The Old Phone Booth On Yankee Pier, NYC
The old phone booth on Yankee Pier is one of the last outdoor, free-standing phone booths in New York City. Its days appear to be numbered. The pier is condemned and slated for demolition. The old phone booth will probably go with it.
News-Press.com: Payphones Do Serve a Purpose
A News-Press.com reporter eavesdrops on a payphone in Fort Myers, Florida, reporting on the content of the calls. The story also includes a map of Fort Myers payphone locations and some facts and figures about payphone usage today.
USA Today: Pay phones still exist?
For some reason USA Today's June 10 story about the decline of payphones in the United States includes a photo of a man using a British Telephone phone booth.
Northern Boulevard Payphone. June, 2012.
Picture of an abandoned payphone on Northern Boulevard in Queens, NYC.
Last Phone Booths in Santa Cruz County
Payphone trivia and phone booth pictures from Central California.
(718) 699-8824. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Payphone
Another non-working Verizon payphone. March, 2012.
Who Still Uses Payphones?
Payphones (the ones that actually work) appear to be anything but silent in New York City. Today's payphone user does not fit a single demographic or stereotype. Payphones today are used by children, the elderly, and all age ranges in between.
Payphone Users of the 21st Century
This is a photograph of 2 human beings using a public pay telephone (PPT) in New York City in the year 2012. (More said pictures to come, because we human beings still use payphones).
I thought I lost this picture. 1990-something. I love this picture so much.
I thought I lost this picture to a discarded floppy disk. I love this payphone picture so much. It is from 1990-something.
Sioux City: “Pay phones were vaporized.”
“The pay phone previously present at the Kum & Go at 14th and Pierce? Gone. The one on Pierce Street between Gordon Drive and Third Street? Kaput. “That Pierce Street phone was the one used by Linda Talbott, of Elk Point, S.D., the last time she used a pay phone. That came in the early…
FairPoint Communications Sells Its Payphones to Pacific Telemanagement Services
Pacific Telemanagement Services (PTS) continues its acquisition of U.S. public pay telephone locations with the purchase of approximately 4000 payphones from FairPoint Communications.
Vector Media Payphone. Queens Boulevard. May, 2012.
Vector Media Payphone. Queens Boulevard. May, 2012.