Payphones Past

I spotted this payphone in October (on 10/10/2010, to be exact). Something tells me that when I pass this spot again this payphone hulk so ignominiously suffocating under a plastic bag will be gone.

Payphones like this, stuffed into alleyways and in the free spaces between buildings, are increasingly hard to find.

I hope to resume my Payphones Then and Now series in the coming weeks. I have recently spotted a number of removals of payphones which I photographed months and years ago.

the payphone project

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