payphones
Street telephone stations
Payphones are public telephones that require payment—typically coins or a prepaid card—to make calls.
Once ubiquitous on street corners, in airports, and outside convenience stores, they've largely disappeared as mobile phones became universal.
I had to find a payphone to call for help.
The singular is payphone.
Assigned living accommodations
- dimesCoins worth ten cents
- nickelsSmall denomination coins
- coin-slotPayment-accepting metal slit
- changeTo make different
insert · deposit · prepaid · toll · refund · receiver · handset · rotary-dial
Preserved ancient object
- bygoneOf earlier times
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- vintageQuality from past eras
- retroEvoking recent past
disappearing · removed · decommissioned · neglected · abandoned · Superman · iconic · 1980s
quarters
Assigned living accommodations
change · insert · deposit · prepaid · toll · refund · receiver · handset · rotary-dial · touch-tone
relic
Preserved ancient object
retro · disappearing · removed · decommissioned · neglected · abandoned · Superman · iconic · 1980s · 1990s
kiosk
Standalone public booth
airport · hospital · vandalism · graffiti · enclosure · directory · phonebook · instructions · cord · tethered
911
Crisis response number
- lifelineEssential connection to safety
- strandedLeft without means to leave
- breakdownFailure or decomposition
roadside · motorist · traveler · distress · help · rescue · crisis · urgent · backup · police
- coin-operatedvending machines, parking meters, slot machines, gumball machines, toll booths
- dying industriesprint newspapers, landlines, cassette tapes, VCRs, VHS tapes
- telephone thingsrotary phones, handsets, receivers, switchboards, cordless phones
- Retrovintage, retro, throwback, record players, old-school
- coin machinesvending machines, slot machines, parking meters, gumball machines, coin slots
- vanishing thingsblacksmiths, cobblers, lamplighters, switchboard operators, telegraphers
payphonesmobile phones
Portable wireless communication devices
cell phones · smartphones · home phones · landlines · cellphones
payphonessmartphones
Handheld touchscreen computers
iPhones · FaceTime · mobile devices · VoIP · Zoom