Payphone Project Website
The Payphone Project contains thousands of payphone numbers, with photos, stories, and links related to pay phones and phone booths throughout the world.
The original intention of the Payphone Project was to promote random contacts among complete strangers. By listing public payphone numbers throughout America it invited people to pick up the phone and call some random street corner in some random town and talk to whoever answered.
That original purpose is now nearly moot. Virtually all payphones reject incoming calls. Those that accept calls would be programmed otherwise once people start calling them. Other payphones and phone booths sit in outlying areas (where cell phones rarely work) as a public service in case of emergencies. It would be irresponsible to encourage people to monopolize these resources by unnecessarily calling just for laughs.
