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Here is a list of payphones that I have seen. Most have photo and some have numbers and location. Most are in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Berkeley is one of the few places I've been to with payphones just out on the street. Take a walk in Google streetview on Shattuck ave and you'll see quite a few that are also on my site.
On October 9th, 2025, I went to all BART stations between Daly City and Embarcadero to find payphones and added them all here. I also went to all Muni metro stations between Embarcadero and West Portal.
BTW, if you use these photos, please credit me as tipandring.net !
This phone is still here
This wheelchair accessible phone has ben removed.
Its Pac Bell coin door has been covered
Location: Daly City, CA, Daly City BART train station
Number: (650) 991-9833
Notes: Between May 24th, and August 7th 2025, the accessible phone (in the 2nd pic) has been removed. The taller phone is the last one in Daly City station. The remaining phone had the coin door sticker removed, revealing a Pacific Bell coin door - as of October 9th, 2025, the Pacific Bell logo has been covered by another 5 mins for $1 to Mexico sticker :(
Works as of: November 18th, 2025
Photo taken: April 7th, 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA, Battery-Cranston Rd parking lot
Number: (415) 345-9785
Notes: My most favorite payphone - because it the last full-on phone booth in SF, door, glass, and all. Read all about it on its page!
Works as of: October 18th, 2025
Photo taken: October 18th, 2025
Location: Berkeley CA, corner of Dwight Way and Shattuck Ave
Number: (510) 540-9022
Notes: This phone is beautiful and works! There are a surprising amount of payphones in this part of Berkeley, and is relatively clean. As of June 9th, 2025, this phone, along with many other payphones along Shattuck Ave have had their enclosures painted dark purple. Shattuck Ave is like a payphone heaven for me, since there is a phone about every other block on a street corner, they all work, and as a bonus the subway stations underground also have working payphones!
Works as of: June 9th, 2025
Photo taken: February 24th, 2024
Location: Daly City, CA, outside the Speedway gas station on Juniperro Serra
Number:
Notes: Covered in graffiti, not working.
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Photo taken: March 12th, 2024
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, Balboa Fun Zone
Number: (949) 673-9925
Notes: Lots of graffiti, does not work. Has the Phone sign above.
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Photo taken: April 27th, 2024
Old enclosures
New enclosures
Location: Burlingame, CA, Broadway Caltrain Station
Number: (650) 348-9620 (left), (650) 348-9718 (right)
Notes: In early November 2025, these phones had their enclosures replaced with L31 enclosures (interestingly, one is NOS Pacific Bell and has the light on). I don't see any reason as to why they replaced the enclosures - they are unique, had no graffiti, and in good condition. Both are clean and working on the Caltrain platform.
Works as of: November 17th, 2025
Photo taken: May 6th, 2024, November 17th, 2025
July 8th, 2024
October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Powell Muni subway platform
Number: Not visible
Notes: This phone looks sad. It's quite dark and gloomy underground and its missing its handset. The number is not legible but is it handwritten on the info card. It also has a coin slot guard. As of October 9th, 2025, the instruction cards have been removed and there is lots of graffiti. (2nd photo is most recent)
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Photo taken: July 8th, 2024, October 9th, 2025
Location: San Mateo, CA, outside Suruki supermarket
Number:
Notes: Very well preserved. No graffiti at all. Even has the Phone sign above it!
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Photo taken: July 11th, 2024
July 12th, 2024 (working)
October 21st, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Kaiser Permanente hospital lobby on Geary and Divisadero
Number: Not visible, couldn't decipher, even in person.
Notes: It has a TTY unit too. Its in a small cove-like area near the restrooms. This is the only one left of the 3 or 4 that was there as there are empty spots next to it where other payphones used to sit. As of October 21st, 2025, it's been converted to a free VoIP phone and doesn't work.
Works as of: July 12th, 2024
Photo taken: July 12th, 2024
Location: Berkeley, CA, corner of University Ave and 6th St
Number: (510) 486-9610
Notes: Working, and has the light on! No graffiti too.
Works as of: November 16th,2025
Photo taken: November 1st, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, 16th St. Mission BART station
Number: (415) 865-9900 (left) (415) 865-9859 (right)
Notes: The right phone appears to have been disconnected but is still there (when you call the number you get the automated "this number is not in service" message). The left phone worked great. Very clean, no graffiti somehow.
Works as of: October 22nd, 2025 (left only)
Photo taken: July 16th, 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA, 24th St Mission BART station lobby
Number: (left to right) (415) 550-9595, (415) 550-9596, (415) 550-9597 (broken)
Notes: A whole bank of 3 in bright blue enclosures! The first 2 worked, the last one (9597) didn't. There is another empty enclosure on the right. The middle phone has a Bell South "Press Blue to get Through" dialpad with blue 1 and # keys! (for more info on this click here)
Works as of: (Left 2) October 9th, 2025
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Glen Park BART station paid area
Number: (415) 239-9042
Notes: One of my favorite payphones - beautiful enclosure with all the glass panels, and in great working condition with a TTY! The back even has a Pacific Bell lens! The Pacific Bell logos on the sides have been covered up by PTS.
Works as of: October 9th, 2025
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: Daly City, CA, Daly City BART train station
Number:
Notes: Not a payphone, but a beautiful enclosure. Has tty, phone book holder (no phone book), and Pac Bell logo! As of August 21st, 2025, this enclosure has been removed.
Removed as of August 21st 2025
Photo taken: July 18th, 2024
Location: New York City, NY
Number:
Notes: In a restaurant basement, don't remember what restaurant though. Looked great! not functioning.
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Photo taken: Spring 2024
Location: San Francisco International Airport
Number:
Notes: This is no longer a payphone, as it has been converted to provide free domestic calls in the US. Call outside the US, you must use a prepaid calling card.
Location: San Francisco, CA, Civic Center Muni station platform
Number:
Notes: As of October 9th, 2025, the actual phone has been removed, but the enclosure still stands.
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Photo taken: October 3rd, 2024
Location: San Mateo, CA, Hillsdale Shopping Center, under foodcourt escalator by California Pizza Kitchen
Number: (650) 574-9381
Notes: Looked very clean. Many spots around the mall's walls with spaces that have ads where payphones like this one used to be. One of only 2 payphones left in the mall.
Works as of: May 2025
Photo taken: September 22nd, 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA, Castro Muni subway platform
Number:
Notes: Was once my favorite payphone with a Pacific Bell enclosure. I made a call on Easter Sunday of 2023, and next month I found an Out of service note on the phone. It hasn't worked since and has fallen into disrepair :(
Works as of: Easter Sunday 2023
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Van Ness Muni train station lobby/ticket area
Number: Not visible
Notes: I remember this phone. I made a call last in 2023, I don't remember when. The last time I made a call from this phone, it gave me my money back at the end of the call haha. No longer works and no handset. It has a coinslot guard too.
Works as of: 2023
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Civic Center Muni train station inside fare gates
Number: Not visible
Notes: There is at least a few working phones and this dead one in the train station. The working ones are also maintained by PTS and is clean. Has a Pacific Bell handset. Still there and broken as of November 20th, 2025
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Photo taken : May 24th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Civic Center subway station lobby
Number: (415) 865-9837
Notes: 1 of 6 working phones in Civic Center station. I found 50c in this phone's coin return one time and made a call with it haha.
Works as of: October 9th, 2025
Photo taken : October 8th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Civic Center subway lobby
Number: (415) 865-9852
Notes: The damaged info card as seen in the photo has been replaced this November.
Works as of: November 18th, 2025
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Civic Center subway station lobby
Number: (415) 865-9845 (left) (415) 865-9815 (right)
Notes: 2 of 6 working phones in Civic Center station
Works as of: August 26th, 2025
Photo taken : August 26th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Civic Center subway lobby
Number: (415) 865-9856 (left) (415) 865-9851 (right)
Notes: 2 of 6 working phones in Civic Center station. The left phone has the PTS free calls instruction card and TTY. Recently, when I called the free daily prayer number, an actual human picked up, which is nice to see. Has a phone cube without the light on.
Works as of: November 13th, 2025
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Montgomery Muni subway platform
Number: Not visible
Notes: Former SBC, Precision Pay Phone, used to work, then became a card-only phone, and now doesn't work at all. Missing coin return bucket.
Works as of: 2023
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Montgomery subway lobby
Number: (415) 421-9070
Notes: Had "Out of service" stickers, did not work.
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Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Montgomery subway station lobby
Number: (415) 421-9067 (left not working) (415) 421-9073
Notes: Left phone didn't work. Right phone has TTY.
Works as of: October 9th, 2025 (right)
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, West Portal Muni train lobby/ticketing area
Number: Not visible
Notes: This phone used to have one of those bright yellow Phone 1 handsets! It was relatively clean and worked but stopped late 2023-early 2024. Now the handset is gone and is looking quite sad. I was surprised to see this wall-embedded phone is just a regular phone with a cover.
Works as of: Mid 2023
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Forest Hill Muni train lobby/ticketing area
Number: Not visible
Notes: This phone is tucker in a corner in the secondary entrance. Has fake wood grain panels. It also had Pacific Bell TTY sign. The phone does have a TTY.
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Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Church Muni subway platform
Number: Not visible
Notes: Similar to the Castro station phone but dirtier and broken. Former Pac Bell.
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Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Embarcadero Muni train station platform
Number:
Notes: This one is weird. It has an enclosure that is not completely attached to the ground so it spins around but it isn't supposed to. The phone used to work around 2023 but you can hear a loud dialtone on both ends of a call. No longer works, but it a decent phone to look at.
Works as of: 2023
Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Embarcadero subway station concourse
Notes: No payphones, but the glowing phone cubes still alive and well! Other stations, I know for sure Powell has at least one working one, have these as well, and may or may not work, and may or may not have a phone.
Photo taken: November 21st, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Powell St subway station lobby
Number: (415) 421-9087 (left) (415) 421-9093 (right)
Notes: Clean and maintained by PTS. One of 6(?) in the entire station. The right phone has used to have a Pacific Bell handset, but was removed and replaced between October 7th, 2025, and October 31st, 2025.
Works as of: November 7th, 2025
Photo taken : October7th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Powell St subway station lobby
Number: (415) 421-9096 (left) (415) 421-9101 (right)
Notes: Clean and maintained by PTS. One of 6(?) in the entire station. The left phone (still unlike the other Powell station phone) has a very abused Pacific Bell handset (right photo) !
Works as of: November 7th, 2025
Photo taken : October7th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Powell St subway station lobby
Number: (415) 421-9103
Notes: Clean and maintained by PTS. One of 5+ in the entire station. Only phone remaining in a former bank of 4. Also has a still lit, glowing phone handset cube above it (not pictured, to see a similar one, scroll up).
Works as of: November 7th, 2025
Photo taken : October7th, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, Powell St subway station BART paid area
Number: (415) 421-9100
Notes: Did not work, hopefully PTS repairs it.
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Photo taken: October 9th, 2025
Location: Berkeley CA, Corner of Shattuck Ave and Haste St
Number: (510) 486-9801
Notes: Several similar payhones located along Shattuck Ave with purple painted enclosure.
Works as of: June 9th, 2025
Photo taken: June 9th, 2025
Location: Berkeley CA, Corner of Shattuck Ave and Bancroft Way
Number: (510) 486 -9414
Notes: Someone broke and stole the speaker out of the handset so I couldn't tell if the phone itself was working. The phone's keypad has the 1 and # buttons in blue. The blue buttons are a remain of BellSouth's "Press Blue To Get Through" campaign. (For more info on this click here) PTS maintains this phone so hopefully the handset will be repaired soon.
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Photo taken: June 9th, 2025
Location: Berkeley CA, Corner of Shattuck Ave and Allston Way
Number: (510) 486-9443
Notes: Several similar payphones located along Shattuck Ave with purple painted enclosure.
Works as of: June 9th, 2025
Photo taken: June 9th, 2025
Location:Berkeley CA, Corner of Shattuck Ave and Addison St
Number: (510) 540-9913
Notes: Several similar payphones located along Shattuck Ave with purple painted enclosure.
Works as of: August 2025
Photo taken: June 9th, 2025
Location: Downtown Berkeley BART train staion, Berkeley CA
Number: (510) 486-9484
Notes: In the station concourse. There were 5 payphones in the surrounding wall, this is the only one remaining.
Works as of: June 9th, 2025
Photo Taken: June 9th, 2025
Location: Burlingame, CA, Burlingame Caltrain station
Number: (650) 348-9831 (street) (650) 348-9715 (platform)
Notes: Former Bell system phones, one is on the street and he other is on the station platform. The street phone has an SBC volume button that still works! (Street phone in 1st photo, platform phone in 2nd) The street phone had a broken handset, with the speaker hanging on by just the wires, but still had dialtone by some miracle. I left PTS a repair notice (November 17th).
Works as of: November 17th, 2025
Photo taken: July 28th, 2025
Location: Daly City, CA, Royal Donut shop 7438 Mission St
Number:
Notes: This phone is well preserved, does not work. I always love to get donuts from here though. The phone sits next to some newspaper vending machines outside.
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Location: Gas station 2015 Saratoga Sunnyvale Rd40
Number: (408) 725-9640
Notes: Does not work. Google drive is cropping the photo for some reason, sorry! Similar enclosure is at Muir woods - the payphone was relocated to behind the visitor center but I think the enclosure is still there.
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Photo taken: August 10th, 2025
Location: MacArthur BART station platform
Number:
Notes: Had a TTY?
Works as of: I forgot, but it was post-2020 pandemic
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Location: Lake Merritt BART station
Number:
Notes: there's at least 2 at the station
Works as of: June 2025
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Location: San Francisco, CA, Suppenküche German Restaurant, 525 Laguna St
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Notes: Embedded in the restaurant wall outside facing Laguna st, no handset, completely painted over in black
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Location: Berkeley, CA, UC Berkeley campus, Sproul Plaza
Number: (510) 665-5468 , (510) 647-3891
Notes: Double sided pedestal! They both had dial tone. Since they're on the campus, they have posters and flyers taped to them. There is phone book holder that I could see a phone book inside of, but it looked gross so I didn't bother touching it.
Works as of: September 14th, 2025
Photo taken: September 14th, 2025
Location: Berkeley, CA, 2600 Dwight Way
Number: (510) 486-9440
Notes: Didn't work when I passed by on Sep. 14th, hopefully PTS will repair it soon.
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Photo taken: September 14th, 2025
Location: Palo Alto CalTrain platform
Number: (650) 853-9306 (left) (650) 853-9240 (right)
Notes: Very clean, the right phone had a phone book holder at some point. but its (mostly) gone. The left phone had the light on inside the enclosure! The left phone has the Pacific Bell enclosure metal panels, but the right phone had its removed (you can see mounting points where they once were).
Works as of: September 1st, 2025
Photo taken: September 1st, 2025
Location: Ashby, CA, Telegraph Ave and Ashby Ave
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Notes: I believe is operated by PTS, hopefully works. Couldn't check.
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Location: Berkeley, CA, 2009 San Pablo Ave, close to University Ave
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Notes: On Google streetview, I believe is operated by PTS, hopefully works. Couldn't check.
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Location: 123 Fake St, San Francisco, CA
Number: (555) 555-5555
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