Sep. 14—As a child I was fascinated by telephones. If there was one around I had to play with it. I loved the sound the rotary dial made as a call was placed. The process involved lifting the phone ...

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 ...

With the ubiquitousness of the cell phone, pay phones may be on their way to obsolescence. While London has found a way to preserve their iconic red phone booths as tourist attractions, the gray metal ...

A crop of new startups are racing to reinvent the cubicle, catering to businesses that want more private space for their employees. NYC Pay Phones Pivot To Become Information Hubs A project to turn ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Lane Handke called his wife, Cathleen, the other day to tell her he was bringing home the shelves they needed to finish their cabinet. The call cost him 25 cents ...

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 ...

TUNBRIDGE, Vt. — 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 that he ...

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 ...

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 ...