Comments on: PRAY at Beyond the Streets https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:56:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html#comment-62893 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:56:56 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9668#comment-62893 In reply to PB.

PB – Did it look anything like this, which I’ve seen around town for years: https://youtu.be/zsKGFA2ytaw

]]> By: PB https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html#comment-62876 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:38:11 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9668#comment-62876 (two crossed lines seemingly intended to be a cross) in magic marker on a subway entrance (near Columbus Circle) in 2011. Thing is, it was above you on an overhead structure as you went down the subway stairs. I have a picture. Too high for a person to reach with out help. So very unlikely it was that "elderly woman" as is part of the longtime "Pray" legend. But the "handwriting" was very similar to other pictures I have seen online from past instances. Glad I took the picture because it did not last, that station is kept up.]]> Saw PRAY ➕ (two crossed lines seemingly intended to be a cross) in magic marker on a subway entrance (near Columbus Circle) in 2011. Thing is, it was above you on an overhead structure as you went down the subway stairs. I have a picture. Too high for a person to reach with out help. So very unlikely it was that “elderly woman” as is part of the longtime “Pray” legend. But the “handwriting” was very similar to other pictures I have seen online from past instances. Glad I took the picture because it did not last, that station is kept up.

]]> By: Joseph https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html#comment-53316 Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:52:59 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9668#comment-53316 I spotted 2 pray etchings on metal window sills in Hells Kitchen in the last 5 years.

]]> By: zed https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html#comment-35263 Thu, 13 May 2021 02:05:28 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9668#comment-35263 Last year I saw one in NYC just before the pandemic in Grand Central Station.

Indeed I think at one time Worship God was etched into every single pay phone in NYC. I think I first noticed this in the 1970s or 1980s.

]]> By: the payphone project https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html#comment-32703 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:03:01 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9668#comment-32703 In reply to GERMAN HERNANDEZ.

I see etchings of “GO TO CHURCH READ BIBLE” and “PRAY” on NYC payphones, and believe I did in fact see “WORSHIP GOD” on a Newark Penn Station payphone some time in 2019. PRAY, as she came to be known, was active through the 1970s and 1980s, and her etchings could be found on virtually every public pay telephone in NYC, and on countless other surfaces around town. Her messages are still out there, but have become scarce in quantity, and with the passage of time almost impossible for most people to see.

]]> By: GERMAN HERNANDEZ https://www.payphone-project.com/pray-at-beyond-the-streets.html#comment-32700 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 07:48:38 +0000 http://www.payphone-project.com/?p=9668#comment-32700 I am a Newark NJ resident; at age 13 in 1976, I began etching scratchiti onto a coin box on a public payphone as my mother shopped for luggage as we were relocating to Puerto Rico; I was in a rather melancholic mood when I began to etch ” WORSHIP GOD”……years later around 1981, I returned back to visit Newark and noticed an odd occurrence…that many public phones had the same scratchiti etched on them, with the same words I began back in 1976…”WORSHIP GOD”…coincidence? I struggled to explain this occurrence but dismissed it. I’m wondering if anyone can confirm this, or has come across such payphone scratchiti?…had always been perplexed about this.

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