New York phone booths, once ubiquitous across the city, will soon be no more.On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to replace every pay phone in NYC—there are around 8,400—with WiFi ...

Charles Katz made his money from basketball. On most mornings, he’d enter a phone booth on Sunset Blvd., in his hometown of Los Angeles, and wire illegal gambling wagers to Miami and Boston. The ...

For kids, the phone booth has become something of a novelty. But grownups can’t be bothered. The first public coin-operated pay phone appeared in Hartford, Conn., in 1889.

Pay phones are vestiges of the analog world, before the “I’ll be 15 minutes late” text, when long-distance was a consideration and people on calls in public got their own private booths.

According to a history put out by the Gray Telephone Pay Station Company in the 1930s, years after Gray had died, he came up with the idea in 1888, when his wife was ill and he needed to get the ...

A classic phone booth raises a question: When is the last time you used a pay phone? Published: Jan. 25, 2014, 12:27 p.m. Subscribers can gift articles to anyone ...

Phone booths? Who uses pay phones anymore? No one said anything about pay phones. The idea is to put up phone booths – all right, technically, phoneless booths – in public places around the ...

Few wall-mounted pay phones linger in strip malls, and the silver and blue phone booths are mostly gone from the busy streets they once dotted in many parts of the U.S. Pay phones have become so ...

Since then, the number of pay phones has fallen every year, and there are 31 million phone booths nationwide as of September. With cell phones allowing people to easily make phone calls whenever and ...

The company still has 15 pay phones, down from 42 a decade ago, but only one is in a booth. Guy Matthews, who owns the Colonial Motel, said the phone booth was there when he bought the motel in 1976.

Phone booths? Who uses pay phones anymore? No one said anything about pay phones. The idea is to put up phone booths – all right, technically, phoneless booths – in public places around the ...