Telephones

Pick up the receiver of this ordinary-looking phone booth and more than ten hours of voices, music, laughter and memories from the past come unexpectedly back through the line.

Beside a lonely road winding into the hills overlooking Altadena, sits a portal that urges callers to embrace humanity‘s innermost expression: Goodbye

Honor lost loved ones at this serene wind phone hidden in an environmental preserve.

An imposing, larger-than-life statue of Alexander Graham Bell sits at the entrance of the Bell Telephone Company office.

An iconic British fixture in an unconventional color.

A rare double-receiver payphone housed in a fake tree.

A phone booth that combines public art and climate change awareness.

A mid-century telephone booth still stands, now a long-distance relic of the past.

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.