Payphones Past

Categories: Then and Now

Remembering How Obsessively I Used to Write Down Payphone Numbers

I cleared out an old storage locker in December, and have since been surrounded with box loads of ephemera and papyral detritus from my life going all the way back to my baby book. Today I found these scraps of paper from Los Angeles in either 1999 or 2000, when I attempted to document every payphone number at the LA Convention Center, with payphones at LAX airport thrown in just because I was there. These numbers appeared on the original California payphone locations page but are today, I assume, all disconnected.

LA Convention Center Payphones
LA Convention Center Payphones
LA Convention Center Payphones
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