Payphones Past

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StreetMessages.com: The Domain Name That Got Away

An abandoned payphone outside the abandoned headquarters for StreetMessages.com provided an amusing antidote to a fresh appearance of that defunct…

8 years ago

718-271-9306. Broadway & St. James Avenue. Elmhurst, Queens.

This clamshell payphone at the corner of Broadway and St. James Place in Elmhurst, Queens, still bears signage from when…

10 years ago

61st St. and Roosevelt Ave. Woodside, Queens 718-429-8216 Van Wagner, LLC. Photo by David Moore.

Another phone similar in style to this one (somewhat unusually embedded in a blue wooden box) used to exist nearby…

10 years ago

Vestiges of Payphone Brands Past

Last year at about this time I commented on a New York Times blog entry that called out a "Phantom…

16 years ago