Payphone Repairman on the Job, 2011
StLToday.com reports:
“With cellphones dominating the telecommunications industry, pay phones are disappearing fast. Their numbers nationally plummeted from 2.1 million in 1999 to 550,000 in 2009, the last year the Federal Communications Commission released its ‘pay phone population’ figures.
“The major carriers, AT&T and Verizon, have both pulled out of the pay
phone business, leaving the market to small, regional companies such as Joltran, which, with Pacific Telemanagement Inc., operates most of the remaining pay phones in this area.”
Read more at StLToday.com, and don’t miss the photo essay of a payphone repairman on the job.
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These charmers are a recent discovery for me.
https://youtu.be/ajkLQ3RJrsY I procured a VCR for the purpose of digitizing some of my old VHS…
https://youtu.be/0tUj9-TonbY Starts at the Fordham Road subway, where one of the phones I looked at…
An unexpected payphone find in Ozone Park, Queens, led to a trip through its Streetview…