Payphones downtown seattle

They Actually Do Work. Hooray for the Payphone Truck! Sorabji WSBJ. Last Wook. Last Wookie. Photos by GE. From the th Street Phone Booth. This collection of payphone numbers and locations is kept online for historical purposes. You might be surprised by how often I field requests or get web traffic from people who, for one reason or another, need to confirm whether or not a payphone once existed or did not exist at a certain place.

A notable example of this occurred when a producer of the "Serial" podcast contacted me to evaluate what came to be known as " The Mysterious Best Buy Payphone ".

Information on these pages was collected from various sources, including law enforcement, private investigators, and numerous individuals who sent in their collections of payphone numbers and locations. Phone numbers on these pages are believed to either be or to have been at one time assigned to public telephones payphones in the United States.

This information is provided as is in the hope that it will be useful in determining exact or approximate locations, past or present, of payphones in the United States. Thanks to Val Vashon for some good news from the world of Seattle payphones. Not only are there working payphones in Seattle but these suckers actually accept incoming calls.

That is pretty unusual, since most payphones are programmed to reject incoming calls. You can see larger versions of these images at PayphonePictures. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Safeco Field Payphone. Seattle Payphone. Payphone News is happy to see that Safeco Field in Seattle has at least one working payphone, one which appears to also include a Pay Phone TTY unit for use by handicapped stadium visitors. Pay Phone TTYs text telephones are probably the most rarely used feature of public telephones, but under some circumstances federal regulations mandate that they be provided in stadiums and arenas.

A recent visit to the New Yankee Stadium, for instance, revealed that the Yankees appear to have made a deliberate decision not to have public telephones or TTY units at their stadium.

By not having a single public telephone at their new stadium the Yankees avoid having to install a Public Text Telephone unit as well.

For a nostalgic perspective on payphones at baseball stadiums look for The Baseball Stadium Project at BaseballProspectus.