Pay Phones From Around the Globe

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I don't endorse breaking into abandoned buildings, but from this video, there are pay phones in the abandoned Montgomery Mall at 2899 E. South Blvd. Montgomery, AL.

Timestamps showing pay phones:

- 10:37
- 11:26 (Probably same phone as the one at 10:37)
- 18:40
- 21:07
Video:

[Westrex]

Dead pay phones from around Portland, Oregon. Images 1 & 2 are a booth at a Shell station (5520 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR), images 3 & 4 are at 710 NE Broadway Portland, OR, and images 5 & 6 are 2 FuTel pay phones.

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Pay phone pictures from Portland Union Station. The station seems like it hasn`t been updated since 1956 with it's wooden benches, neon signs, wooden phone booths, and other items in the station. There is 1 Qwest Millenium pay phone in a bank of 8 booths and 1 former TDD/TTY pay phone, and it does make and receive calls (although it doesn't ring).

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At the Grossmont Center Mall, there is at least one working pay phone (as of 2022). The timestamp for the pay phone is 2:01. The phone has a Southwestern Bell handset, and a AT&T collect calling sticker but it seems to be a GTE 2200 style phone though.

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Here are some phones non-working or non-existent phones from Victoria B.C., Canada.

Photo 1: Automatic Electric/GTE 120B phone with a missing handset and burn marks  ()

Photo 2: Pagoda-topped booth holding the phone from photo 1. Address: 612 Fisgard St

Photo 3: Another pagoda-topped booth down the street from photo 2. This may have had a Millenium phone in it, as shown in this news story: http://tinyurl.com/mpk6jrkk

Photo 4: An enclosure with a phone book binder and courtesy phone inside the Victoria Conference Centre - Crystal Garden at 713 Douglas St.

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Some phones from Fredricksburg, Texas and San Antonio, Texas.

Photo 1: A GTE 2200 phone at Sunset Village convenience store. I'm pretty sure this works, since it made an audible "click" sound when it was picked up, but it smelled like a public ashtray, so I didn't fully check for dial tone.

Photo 2: Instruction card for the phone in Photo 1

Photo 3: Former pay phone, now free-phone* at the San Antonio Airport B-Terminal (I think)

Photo 4: The sign for E L Smith Heating & Plumbing with the phone number PE 6-1603. Google maps: http://tinyurl.com/yf36s89e

* = local and toll-free calls only

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Here's an out-of-service USWEST/Mountain Bell payphone that was turned into a free-phone. It's located at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.

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Here are some payphone locations in New York & New Jersey (linked text goes to Google Maps):

- John F. Kennedy International Airport - Behind an ATM between restrooms near Taxis/Uber/Lyft
- Napoli's Pizzeria (out of service) - Hoboken, New Jersey
- Grand Central Station between Track 100 & MTA Lost & Found (No Dial Tone, Missing Receiver Element) - New York
- Clinton St & 3rd St (Enclosure Only) - Hoboken, New Jersey
- Fifth St. & Willow Ave. (Enclosure Only) - Hoboken, New Jersey
- Ellis Island near Cafe & Restrooms (gone, one visible enclosure remains) - Ellis Island (New York)
- Staten Island Ferry Terminal (Whitehall) (gone, signs still visible) - New York

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Here's the PTS phone near the Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, and Subway at Rockefeller Center. It had no dial tone when I tested it, however it was reported to work in February, 2025.

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Here are more phones from New York & New Jersey:

Photo 1: Union Sq. & 14th St. subway station (no dial tone) - New York
Photos 2 & 3: Penn Station near Track 19 (no dial tone, but probably will be repaired because it's operated by PTS) - New York
Photos 5 & 6: W. 66th St. & West End Ave. (no dial tone) - New York

Enclosures Only:

- Washington St. & 1st St. - Hoboken, New Jersey

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Phones on the street in Hoboken, NJ:

Photo 1: Hudson St. & 1st St. (not checked for dial tone, but likely none)
Photos 2 & 3: Hudson St. & Newark St. (no dial tone)

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More phones from New York, New York & Hoboken, New Jersey:

- Lexington Ave. & 103rd St. subway station (Out of Service) - New York

Enclosures Only:

- Grand St. & 7th St. - Hoboken, NJ
- 3rd St. & Washington St. - Hoboken, NJ

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These 2 telephones are Bell System/Western Electric units at the second floor of the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza).

Photos 1 & 2: Fully working phone on the Eastern Pkwy. side, doesn't accept incoming calls. - Tel: 347/422-1287
Photos 3-5: Semi-working phone (has dial tone, won't connect any calls & rejects coins) on the Flatbush Av. side, incoming calls not tested. - Tel: 347/420-9260
Photo 6: Map showing phone locations.

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These 2 Verizon units are at the New York Transit Museum (99 Schermerhorn St. Brooklyn, NY), and have no dial tone.

[Westrex]

There's also a black K6 phone booth, a nice one too, at the Tower of London, but the handset has been cut (I'll post pics later). More phones can be found near 60 Strand Street, 429 Strand Street, the Queensland Govt. Offices (Strand WC 2), 5 Great Newport Street, 8 Great Newport Street, 206 Essex Road, and 208 Essex Road. I don't know if the 208 Essex Road, the Strand Street, and Great Newport Street phones work or not, but I've noted their locations here.

I guess I forgot to post pictures of the Tower of London payphone, but here is one.