Astoria Payphone, 2009
Rummaging through some pictures from 2009, remembering why I maintain a mental tic that reminds me “There used to be a payphone at this corner”. It’s because there really used to be a payphone at almost every intersection and streetcorner. These pictures all come from a single day in November, 2009. Every last one of these phones is now gone.
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These charmers are a recent discovery for me.
https://youtu.be/ajkLQ3RJrsY I procured a VCR for the purpose of digitizing some of my old VHS…
https://youtu.be/0tUj9-TonbY Starts at the Fordham Road subway, where one of the phones I looked at…
An unexpected payphone find in Ozone Park, Queens, led to a trip through its Streetview…