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Phone Booth at Mt. Ponpon in Kyoto, Japan

This phone booth on Mt. Ponpon in Kyoto, Japan, is filled with wasps. From the Sharing Kyoto Twitter page.

8 years ago

When There’s No Man Around… 1960 Goodyear Commercial

When there's no man around ... you go to a phone booth to call one. That seems to be part…

8 years ago

NYC Phone Booth Roundup

Just a few sightings of phone booths around New York, with more to come.

8 years ago

Working Payphone Found at Skully’s in Columbus, Ohio

This photo by Twitter follower Brian Perera shows a phone booth with a working payphone inside. Spotted yesterday at Skully's…

8 years ago

Temple City Motel Phone Booth. Photo by Thomas Hawk.

The Temple City Motel in Salt Lake City once had a classic Airlight style phone booth out front. Today it…

8 years ago

Grove, Oklahoma. Phone Booth Sans Payphone. Photo by Brien Engel.

It's a photo from Brien Engel of an abandoned phone booth in Grove, Oklahoma. Hello?

8 years ago

Lonely Old Phone Booth on Yankee Pier, Governors Island

Seen on Yankee Pier off the east side of Governors Island is, for whatever the distinction might be worth, probably…

8 years ago

Phone Booth at Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos, California.

The photo of a phone booth at the Vasona Lake County Park was taken a couple of years ago, on…

8 years ago

Abandoned Phone Booth, Seaview Motel in Pennsville, NJ.

An anonymous photographer contributed this artsy black and white photo of an abandoned Verizon-branded phone booth found at the Seaview…

8 years ago

Alaska: Phone Booth Near the Wrangell Seaplane Base

Mark Cotton saw The Payphone Project on CBS Sunday Morning and sent over this photo from May 2016. It is…

8 years ago

Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Trolley Stop Phone Booth

Nancy Catallo shares this beautiful shot of a well-lit phone booth containing a Bell of Pennsylvania payphone and, possibly, a…

8 years ago

Phone Booth, San Juan National Forest, Colorado

This week I'll be sharing some of the payphone and phone booth photos sent to the Payphone Project from around…

8 years ago

Leipzig Phone Booth

Photo of a Leipzig, Germany, phone booth by Instagram user Amarilll

9 years ago

Tesla, Thomas, Thurber. “Phone Booth”, by Ariana Kelly.

The Payphone Project finds itself in good company in the index to Ariana Kelly's book "Phone Booth".

9 years ago

Telekom Austria, Phone Booth User

Vienna: Man in a golden outfit takes a break in a Telekom Austria phone booth.

9 years ago

Ken Solomon: Report Payphone Damage

Photo of a busted out Telstra phone booth, Australia, by Ken Solomon, with link to more photos by the photographer.

10 years ago

Call (425) 347-9966, the Phone Booth in the World’s Biggest Building

Deep within the bowels of the world largest building (the Boeing Everett Factory in Washington) one finds a surprise: An…

10 years ago

Phone Booth of Mauritania

From the midst of Mitchell Kanashkevich’s stupendous photo essay Mauritania, the Most Amazing Place You’ll Probably Never Visit rises an…

10 years ago

1961: Bird Nesting in a Phone Booth (Bell Telephone Advertisement)

A robin decided to build her nest in the shelter of a public phone booth. To give her peace and…

12 years ago

Wisconsin: Old-Style Phone Booth Spotted at the DOT

A friend of the Payphone Project writes from Madison, Wisconsin, to share photos and comments about an old-style phone booth…

12 years ago

Alfred Hitchcock: Phone Booth Scene from “The Birds”

The Payphone Project steps through the famous phone booth scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"

13 years ago

Phone booth at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse HI-AYH Hostel in Pescadero, California.

Tim W. shares this recent picture of a phone booth at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse HI-AYH Hostel in Pescadero, California.

14 years ago

Payphone Pictures: France, India, Iceland, Laos, and more

Olivier Beyssac sent this e-mail: "I love your site. It reminded me of the strange feeling I had when seeing…

16 years ago