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Hello, Pay Phone Information? Enthusiast Provides the Answer

Posted by TimSlavin at May 14, 2004

"It started as an art project. Blue spiral notebook in hand, Mark Thomas spent afternoons walking the streets of Manhattan, compiling the numbers and locations of public pay phones. He posted them on his Web site in the hope that people would call them.

"There is real beauty in whimsical acts of contact between strangers," he explained. Soon his list expanded to include public phones at the top of the Eiffel Tower, in the basement of the Vatican, in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and at about 450,000 other places around the world."

The best part? People use his website to call total strangers in exotic parts of the world: if you walked past a ringing public phone, would you answer it? A fun slice of life story from NYTimes.com (free registration required; free content available only a short while). However, the paper can't be bothered to even name the guy's website, never mind link to his site, The Payphone Project. I found the URL through Google and a similar story from 2002 at CIO.com.

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