Payphone Scene from “Fools Rush In” (1997)
Salma Hayek makes a somewhat frenzied payphone call in this 1997 romantic comedy. In this brief scene I might have spotted a little payphone goof I bet no one else has ever noticed.
Impossible Phone Numbers, and a Payphone Scene Excised From “John Wick 2”
Calling 212-142-8538 won't get you anything useful, but why let that spoil the fun of "John Wick 2"?
Phone Booth on Route 11 in Martinsburg, West Virginia
Frontier branding covered that of Verizon on this phone booth that used to stand near Bowers Street and Winchester Avenue in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Phone Booth Scene From “The Bad News Bears Breaking Training”
A very brief appearance of a phone booth in this 1977 film captures a cultural ritual that used to be obnoxiously common: Waiting for the payphone hog to get off the phone.
(415) 669-9997: Remote Payphone, Inverness, California
(415) 669-9997, in Inverness, California, must rank among the most remote payphone locations in the United States. This photo was sent in years ago and I'm sorry to say I can only credit the photographer as "Dr. G."
A Consolidated Smart Systems Payphone in Hollywood, 20 Years Ago
A phone owned by an internet service and telephony provider still in business today once stood outside a Hollywood laundromat 20 years ago this month. It is long gone.
Just What I Was Hoping Not To See: Someone Using a Payphone
A shared public pay telephone must rank among the likeliest conduits for transmitting something like the corona virus. That does not seem to have inhibited this individual from using a payphone sans gloves or a facemask.
Portland’s FUTEL Payphone in the Time of Corona
Payphone usage instructions updated for the age of coronavirus. Seen on one of Portland’s FUTEL payphones. From the Instagram account of Arturo Calilung.
Hot Dog House Payphone Up For Grabs On eBay
Through browsing data at my old listings of payphone numbers and locations I quickly concluded that this non-working rotary dial payphone up for grabs on eBay used to be located at the Hot Dog House in Bellefonte, PA, even served as the house phone for the store.
Payphone Radio Goes Corona
If anything, the virus has accelerated the inevitable move away from using payphones as the sole microphone for Payphone Radio.
Phone Booth at the Harrison Hall Hotel, Ocean City, MD
Daniel Hopsicker's photo of the phone booth at the Harrison Hall Hotel in Ocean City, MD.
Just a Quarter of New York’s Wi-Fi Kiosks Are Up. Guess Where. – The New York Times
had been thinking about canceling my New York Times subscription. This article almost made me do it.
Social Distancing on the Kosciuszko
A return visit to the new Kosciuszko Bridge revealed good news. Emergency call box telephones have been installed, along with a somewhat ludicrous quantity of trash cans.
Payphones at Newark Penn Station
I found more working payphones than expected at Penn Station in Newark, NJ. These pictures are from 2018 but most of the phones still seem to work.
Dude Talking on a Payphone. September, 2014.
From when I was trying to be a serious payphone photographer. 21st Street and 29th Avenue in Astoria.
A Wood Phone Booth in the Adirondacks.
A cool shot of a wood phone booth somewhere in the Adirondacks, from the Instagram page of Anne Warner.
Some Payphone Ramblings From Quarantine
I waded through over 700 of my payphone pictures, using them as a writing prompt and to talk about what some of these phones mean or meant to me.
Inside a Smart City Road Wart
What happens when a wood pylon sits on a city street for a couple of years? It starts to fall apart, exposing what it was intended to hide.
Waterville High School Payphone, 2011. Photo by Daniel Hopsicker.
Forest Hills/71st Avenue Subway Payphone: 718-520-9702
Payphones in NYC's subway system are not facing removal to make way for LinkNYC kiosks, though they have disappeared in some quantity this year, even the ones that worked.
Barricade the Payphones to Stop Corona Virus
Simple solution. Seen on Madison Avenue today.
Just How Bad is Call Quality From LinkNYC Kiosks?
I am glad you asked. Listen in on this nearly unintelligible call I made yesterday from a LinkNYC kiosk somewhere in Astoria/LIC.
Did NYC Ever Have an “OO” Telephone Exchange?
The opening credits from season 5 of "Saturday Night Live" opened a bit of a mystery to me when I watched it last week. Was there ever an "OO" telephone exchange in NYC? If so what did it stand for?
LinkNYC’s Smart City Road Wart
Will these rotted wood pylons, intended to indicate where LinkNYC kiosks are supposed to be installed, end up as preëmptive tombstones for the Smart City "revolution"?
Access to MTA Maps Blocked by LinkNYC
CityBridge blocking access to MTA subway and bus maps seems like another Smart City example of something that is harder to get wrong than to get right.
LinkNYC: Iron Rain?
LinkNYC's AP headlines often provide little information but plenty of bewilderment to its public. I saw this and was like, tf?
Queensbridge Payphones: 718-784-8935, 718-729-9638
These back-to-back payphones at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City have some special meaning to me, on account of the circumstances under which I found them.
Benner-Nawman’s BN800 Vanguard Egg-Shaped Enclosure, by Daniel Hopsicker
I spotted this once-popular model of payphone enclosure in Nebraska, Brooklyn, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, and even in the movies, where this style of enclosure made an appearance in The Phone Booth Game, from "Dirty Harry".