https://www.payphone-project.com Wed, 11 Mar 2020 23:57:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.payphone-project.com/nyc-nostalgia-1980s-payphone-caller.html https://www.payphone-project.com/nyc-nostalgia-1980s-payphone-caller.html#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:52:46 +0000 http://news.payphone-project.com/?p=5281

A charming photo from the NYC nostalgia blog in which a 1980s payphone user partly obscures a sign for the "Queensboro Ave." subway stop, a station and streetname I've never heard of.]]> https://www.payphone-project.com/nyc-nostalgia-1980s-payphone-caller.html/feed 2 https://www.payphone-project.com/when-it-comes-to-payphones-honesty-is-the-best-policy.html https://www.payphone-project.com/when-it-comes-to-payphones-honesty-is-the-best-policy.html#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:10:02 +0000 http://news.payphone-project.com/?p=5024

Acting on impulse one day late last summer, young Alfred Higley Jr. proved that honesty still lives. The 12-year-old, who lives on Bell Lane, West Shokan, had spent the day at the town pool, located a mile from his home. Ready to return home for dinner, he decided to call his mother to ask if she could pick him up in the family car.]]> https://www.payphone-project.com/when-it-comes-to-payphones-honesty-is-the-best-policy.html/feed 0 https://www.payphone-project.com/1987-new-york-city-payphone-users.html https://www.payphone-project.com/1987-new-york-city-payphone-users.html#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:00:21 +0000 http://news.payphone-project.com/?p=4859

This photo of two random New Yorkers carrying on unrelated conversations within spitting distance of each other using New York Telephone payphones first appeared at the highly addictive NYC NOSTALGIA blog at Tumblr.com. The NYC Nostalgia blog makes me sad for its images of the human New York that I almost missed, but that still…]]> https://www.payphone-project.com/1987-new-york-city-payphone-users.html/feed 1