An “amateur phone collective” in Philadelphia is working to bring back pay phones to the city – just without the actual payment.
PhilTel, a volunteer organization that launched in June, is planning to open its first free-to-use payphone on December 17 at Iffy Books, a hacker-focused bookshop and workshop in the Center City district. Mike Dank, one of the organization’s founders, told CNN that the project was inspired by an Oregon man who installed a payphone in his front yard. The project, known as FuTel, was surprisingly popular, leading him to install more phones throughout Portland.
“Maybe they’ve had a payphone on their street corner that they’ve been using for the past 20 years, all of a sudden, that’s gone,” he explained. “What are they going to do?” The free phones will also provide a hit of nostalgia in a rapidly digitizing world, according to Dank. “It’s kind of like a cool, nostalgic novelty” which will let users “relive the days when payphones were everywhere,” he said. Dank calls the volunteer-run initiative “half art project, half community service.
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