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, and what was inside?:
I looked at the pay phone number listings when they were up and could find no record of a pay phone at 187-197 First Street in Jersey City. I suppose that this could be the phone for the business number listed on the building. I chickened out on trying the number on the building and also running up to the phone to see if there was a number on it. Having a pay phone inside of a roll up door like this is certainly curious. Later in the afternoon when I walked by again the roll up door was closed, leading me to the conclusion that the phone isn’t really “public”.
