A new film, premiering at the 50th annual Academy Award-Qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival this month, ...

When I asked the Tower City security guard, Al, what he missed most about the payphone era, he said calling his mother. She had recently passed away. The strongest responses came from one question, ...

Due largely to the overwhelming dominance of mobile phones, payphones are a sometimes overlooked relic from the 90’s and earlier eras. While seldom seen out in the wild these days, they can however ...

In smog-darkened days and streetlight lit nights, every person who’s ever put a quarter in the slot and a public pay phone receiver to their ear probably has their own story to tell, though chances ...

Nearly two decades ago I was in the payphone business. I worked for an independent 1+ and 0+ payphone carrier. The gist is that every time someone made a collect call, the company made money by being ...

Last month, New York City removed its last payphone kiosk, a relic of an analog age that in 2022 is more of a museum piece than a functional object. So it’s fitting that the phone immediately made its ...