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 ...

A photographer who set out to document Rochester's pay phones has now started a mission to revive the archaic infrastructure: ...

A photographic exhibit at the Maguire Museum at Saint Joseph's University focuses on the payphone as a way of illustrating how a technological divide has left behind many people living in poverty and ...

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 ...

Reverse engineering a payphone doesn’t sound like a very interesting project, at least in the United States, where payphones were little more than ruggedized versions of residential phones with a coin ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — If you’re like everyone else on the planet over the age of 16, you probably have a cell phone. It’s a good thing because if you ever need to find a pay phone to make a call, chances ...

WICKENBURG, Ariz. — There is a phone in Wickenburg that will never ring. It is a payphone that requires no payment — no number of nickels or dimes will ever make it work again — but people still use ...