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 ...

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 ...

The last pay phone bank being removed on May 23 (photo courtesy City of New York) As the 2005 Rian Johnson movie Brick proved, nothing generates an instant throwback feel like a pay phone. In our age ...

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 ...

There were over 2.1 million pay phones in the U.S. at their peak in 1999, but now the technology is mostly relegated to nostalgia. Few wall-mounted pay phones linger in strip malls, and the silver and ...

BEGGS, Okla. — It’s something you don’t really see anymore — pay phones. While other states are disconnecting them, one Oklahoma family found a pay phone still in service in Beggs. Curious to see if ...

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 ...

In Takoma Park, Maryland, there’s an old pay phone that has been amusing the neighborhood for years at the corner of Flower and Erie avenues. Passing drivers might wonder why the outdated steel and ...

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 ...