A visit to Iffy Books in Philadelphia might feel like wandering through a time portal. Attached to the wall outside the store entrance, shoppers will find a shiny silver-and-black oblong box with a ...

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Coin-operated pay telephones, once ubiquitous, in places ranging from gas stations to drug stores to street corners, have vanished from the landscape. But someone has figured a way to repurpose an old ...

They were once on street corners, at bus stops, in convenience stores, courthouses and casinos. In the pre-cellphone era, everyone from executives to children to criminals used them. But the golden ...

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Once, not so long ago, pay phones were a common sight all around New York City, and they had been for over a century. But then came cellular phones in the late 1990s, and ...

Find a pay phone, dial a toll free number and say goodbye to someone. That’s the premise of the Goodbye Line, an art project that utilizes pay phones across L.A. Anyone can listen to the messages of ...

On May 23, 2022, various news headlines, tweets, and online videos proclaimed that the "last" or "final" pay phone had been removed from New York City. The way that some headlines were worded likely ...

If the old, broken pay phone could talk, if we could capture the first 10,000 conversations of the pay phone’s busiest years in Baltimore — if it were possible to catch all the long-gone conversations ...

We scoured the New York Times photo archive for the humble yet ubiquitous pay phone. By Ann Chen and Aaron Reiss Produced by Jessie Wender As the effort to remove New York City’s street pay phones ...

“END OF AN ERA: NEW YORK CITY’S LAST PAYPHONE TO BE REMOVED,” the city announced a week ago, in a press release. A person might be forgiven for believing that the city’s last pay phone was about to be ...

NEW YORK -- Once, not so long ago, pay phones were a common sight all around New York City, and they had been for over a century. But then came cellular phones in the late 1990s, and the number of ...