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Payphones of “The Man in the High Castle”

Payphones make frequent appearances in TMITHC, a fantasy/science fiction series which explores the hypothetical reality of what North America might…

9 years ago

Midtown’s British-Style Phone Box

It would be surprising if no one thought to find a home for this British style red phone box located…

9 years ago

Concrete Phone Booths, Ironton Rail Trail

Interesting piece about the concrete phone booths that were once abundant along the Ironton Rail Trail in Pennsylvania. Once numbering…

11 years ago

Phone Books for Phantom Phone Booths

One of the weird vagaries lingering among NYC's numerous abandoned phone booth locations is the fact that telephone directories still…

12 years ago

Payphone Reinventors: Look to the Boneyard!

Contestants in New York City's Reinvent Payphones contest might want to look for inspiration from unlikely sources: How about the…

13 years ago

The Old Phone Booth On Yankee Pier, NYC

The old phone booth on Yankee Pier is one of the last outdoor, free-standing phone booths in New York City.…

13 years ago

Wood Phone Booth, NYC. March, 2012.

I thought sure this old wood booth would have been removed since I last saw it about 2 years ago.

13 years ago

Payphones and Pants, Pants and Payphones

It's a commercial for pants -- Dockers pants -- which contains some nice imagery of abandoned phone booths from around…

13 years ago

The Phone Booths at Central Park, NYC

Rare New York City phone booths spotted in Manhattan's Central Park. March, 2012. (212) 722-9781, (212) 722-9476, (212) 722-9431 &…

13 years ago

Manhattan Phone Booths Revisited. May, 2011.

I did not have much time to get these photos, and on account of the time-constraints I found myself nearly…

14 years ago

New Jersey Turnpike Phone Booths

This is a really cool then-and-now sequence of pictures showing a set of phone booths on the New Jersey Turnpike.…

15 years ago

Brooklyn Phone Booths

My friend Rachel directed me to these beautiful old phone booths at the Brooklyn Public Library. The lights are out…

16 years ago

World’s most famous phone booth claims world record

Scotland's Pennan phone box, declared by a local tourism board as "the most famous phone booth in the world," was…

18 years ago

Are there any phone booths left in Pittsburgh?

Kim Lyons finds a handful of phone booths in Pittsburgh, illustrating how Superman would likely be out of luck should…

19 years ago

These phone booths take cellphones

When I was a kid the church I attended installed baby booths. These were soundproof (almost) rooms where parents could…

19 years ago