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 ...

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 ...

Alexis Wood received a notification on her phone. It was an anonymous call from a pay phone. She listened and was momentarily paralyzed. And then she couldn't stop crying. The call wasn't completely ...

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 ...

TUNBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn’t until he found himself living in rural Vermont ...

Spokeo used data from the Federal Communications Commission to explore the fall of pay phones across the United States. - Bettmann // Getty Images Spokeo used data from the Federal Communications ...

Alexis Wood received a notification on her phone. It was an anonymous call from a pay phone. She listened and was momentarily paralyzed. And then she couldn’t stop crying. The call wasn’t completely ...

A vintage black and white photo of a telephone booth at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City. There were over 2.1 million pay phones in the U.S. at their peak in 1999, but now the ...

The Goodbye Line is an art project found on pay phones throughout the Los Angeles area. Hearing the goodbyes of others makes life “less lonely, less scary,” says Adam Trunell, left, who created the ...