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 ...

MIKE DANK: Pay phones are pieces of urban furniture. They just kind of sit there out in the world until somebody comes up and is ready to interact with them. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Dank has loved old ...

It’s true of the PhilTel project, which Dank started with cofounder Naveen Albert last summer. The pair are retrofitting old pay phones with voice over internet protocol (VOIP) devices — hardware that ...

But someone has figured a way to repurpose an old pay phone to dial up some smiles. Near Lafayette Elementary School in D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood, there’s an old-fashioned chrome and ...

In Takoma Park, Maryland, there’s an old pay phone that has been amusing the neighborhood for years at the corner of Flower and Erie avenues. Passing drivers might wonder why the outdated steel ...

That’s how Mark Dank describes PhilTel, a project he is organizing to bring old-fashioned pay phones to Philadelphia neighborhoods — with a twist being that they will be free to use for calls ...

A group of about 20 tech-savvy engineers and programmers gathered Saturday afternoon at a Philadelphia bookstore to celebrate the installation of an old-fashioned public pay phone. Organizers of ...

"They're all saved in my phone." One of the calls he made was to his 14-year-old son Connor, who was on a school trip to Washington DC. Connor had asked his dad to call at a prearranged time while ...