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 ...

Earlier this year, a mysterious pay phone appeared on a residential street in Chevy Chase, DC. Locals were surprised to discover that it worked: You could lift the receiver and call anyone, anywhere, ...

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 ...

This pay phone, one of the last in New York City, was removed from Times Square at the end of May. Photo by Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images Once ubiquitous in New York City, public pay phones ...

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 ...

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 ...

LANSING — Pay phones, once a fixture on busy street corners and in public places such as bars, shopping malls, and airports, are increasingly difficult to find in Michigan. There are now only 260 pay ...

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 ...