/r/payphones
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What's a payphone? Payphones are phones found in public that are coin operated. You insert quarters, dimes or nickels and can make a call anywhere after inserting the coins and dialing a number.
Payphones used to be found all over the place but are disappearing very rapidly.
Most businesses these days have removed them from their establishments by now.
At /r/Payphones, we're here to remind people of their endangered existence and soon to be extinct existence.
They're a technology that should be used more often.
We allow pics, videos and discussions, and news about payphones including abandoned ones.
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Payphone content only.
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/r/payphones
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The Phantom Payphone - Short Film
Happy Halloween everyone. ❤️
16:41 UTC
Bell Payphone - Automated Voice - #2
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Bell Payphone - Automated Voice - #1
02:15 UTC
P'Town is for Payphones
I live in Norfolk, VA, which has become a payphone desert since 2020. In neighboring Portsmouth, two PTS phones are in service at the telephone exchange building (808 High St., (757)-399-9900) and outside City Hall (711 Crawford St., (757)-399-9797). Last year, I relocated my payphone from Norfolk to Portsmouth (806 Scott St., (757)-393-0705) due to site redevelopment.
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23:34 UTC
In all my years
Never seen one like this until today
02:34 UTC
ETS Payphones inc
There is a payphone outside a pawn shop I offered to buy they said they would sell it but don't think they own it. It doesn't have a dial tone and the company listed on it was ets payphones Inc. The 1800 number doesn't work. The company seems to no longer exist but I can't find much about it online. Did someone buy all these up or does it default to the shop?.
22:31 UTC
In search of a Automatic Electric/GTE/ Quadrum 120A Rotary
03:17 UTC
Trenton NJ Transit center
21:33 UTC
Need to find a payphone
Does anyone know of any still active payphones in Columbia, South Carolina? Inside or outside.
11:36 UTC
My pay phone
19:24 UTC
Does anybody know where this is located? I found it on Pinterest.
12:38 UTC
No service here!
Sunapee State Park in New Hampshire.
14:24 UTC
Pay phones around Columbus OH
Hey everyone, I made a topic about pay phones in Columbus in the r/Columbus sub-Reddit. If anyone here in the r/payphones sub-Reddit knows any locations, could you post them here or in my other topic?
Thanks,
23:36 UTC
Deltronics associates inc payphone/phonebooth where can I find the key?
Hey I purchased a Deltronics associates inc payphone/phonebooth and am not able to use it without unlocking it, the problem is I didn't get the key. What key does it use, anyone have a link to somewhere I can buy it from. Thanks in advance :)
22:57 UTC
AZ next to a gas station
It last few days standing
02:41 UTC
Pay phones around Washington
Here’s the locations of pay phones in various areas around Washington State. If anyone knows where other phones could be found, please post a reply.
Seattle & general WA state area:
- Sultan WA Police Station
- Inside Union Station (near King Street Stn.)
- Across from the REI boathouse in Bellevue
- Across from Lewis Hall on the UW campus
- Camp Long Parking Lot
- Puyallup Walmart Super Center
- Federal Way Transit Center(?)
- River Rock Tobacco & Fuel (23704 13th Ave. NE, Arlington WA)
- 205 W. Kincaid Street, Mt. Vernon WA
Also, I should mention that not all the phones here are fully functioning, such as the one at River Rock Tobacco & Fuel
08:21 UTC
Gas station at the corner of St. Paul and Mount Royal-Baltimore, MD
14:39 UTC
Spotted outside a Shell Gas Station. Minocqua, WI
21:42 UTC
San Jose - Costa Rica
13:02 UTC
Can anyone identify this kind of pay phone? #payphones #help
01:39 UTC
Just found/joined the sub. Here’s my pride and joy.
Bought the kiosk a few years ago and restored it. Picked up the phone later. Original Michigan Bell livery. It works great and can make and receive calls. Still has the coin relay, but of course that requires CO signaling to actually work.
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Spotted in Thailand
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