At the NYPL, Where Payphones Don’t Work But the Booths are Cozy
A woman in one of the NYPL Schwartzman branch phone booths. May, 2017.
Tag: phone booths
Phone Booth Hunting in Old School Yearbooks
Phone booth hunting in publicly posted college and high school yearbooks turned up some…
Steppingstone Park Phone Booth
I made a small pilgrimage out to Great Neck, Long Island on Saturday, to…
Phone Booth Scene from Steven Spielberg’s “Duel” (1971)
Here is a cool phone booth scene from Steven Spielberg's "Duel", starring Dennis Weaver.…
Payphones Seen in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan”
I grabbed screenshots of some of the more interesting appearances of payphones in"Manhattan", the…
New Year, Old Payphones
When I first heard about 80s.nyc, a Streetview for NYC in the 1980s, I…
A Phone Booth at Journal Square: P.J. Ryan’s Squared
I spotted an old wood phone booth at PJ Ryan's Squared, a bar at…
Jerry Seinfeld: Pay Phone Standup Routine (1984)
Most folks under the age of 40 would probably have no idea what Jerry…
Phone Booths of Astoria, 1960s. Steinway Street Near Broadway.
I spotted these beautiful 1960s Manhattan phone booths while clicking through an underappreciated Facebook…
Manhattan’s Last Outdoor Phone Booths: What’s The Deal?
One of the more oddball moves by the CityBridge consortium was its replacement of…
Jorge Vasconcelos: 42nd Street Phone Booths, 1985.
Photo is from November 25, 1985, by Jorge Vasconcelos. Please take a tour of…
Camp Rudder Phone Booths, Florida Panhandle. Photo by Tanja Kropf.
Camp Rudder, on the Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle, is home…
NYC Phone Booth Roundup
Just a few sightings of phone booths around New York, with more to come.
Artist Benedetto Bufalino Has Created a Mobile Phone Booth.
Hey, why not?
Two in a Row From Barbara Van der Aue
Phone booth photos from Michigan And Missouri, taken by a follower of the Payphone…
West Virginia House For Sale, Phone Booth Included
This West Virginia house for sale might be a fixer-upper but it comes with…
On Being Seen
I finally watched the "CBS Sunday Morning" segment that aired a few months ago.…
Phone Booth Scene from “Number Please?” (1920)
The phone booth scene steals the show in the 1920 short film "Number Please",…
Phone Booths Return to Times Square
Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi has brought Airlight phone booths to Times Square in Manhattan,…
Working Payphone. Four Seasons Lodge, New Hampshire.
A photo of a working payphone in North Conway, New Hampshire, led me to…
Did William Howard Taft Get Stuck In A Phone Booth?
An anecdote from 1908 claims that presidential candidate William Howard Taft once got trapped…
Payphones Aplenty in Panama. Here’s One From Santa Fé.
Panama still has many payphones, writes Mary Roush: "There are payphones on Contadora and…
The Payphone Project on “CBS Sunday Morning”
The Payphone Project get about a minute of air time on CBS Sunday Morning…
London, 1975: Phone Booths at Tube Station
Photo from the London underground, 1975. Man using one of three phone booths in…
The Modern Phone Booth. Flickr Photographer Darryl Smith.
Cell phone users take cover in phone booths once reserved for public pay telephone…
Those new outdoor phone booths are so doggone handy …
The advertisement below appeared in the August 6, 1957, edition the Panama City News-Herald.…
Diner. Painting by Richard Estes.
Diner. A photorealistic painting by Richard Estes.
An Amazing New York City Phone Booth Photo
The date was February 4, 1978. Why was fashion designer Calvin Klein standing in…