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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.
Location: Daly City, CA, Daly City BART train station
Number: 650-991-9833
Notes: These payphones are on a 2-sided pedestal and are at the Daly City BART train station. Both work great.
Works as of: Jan 20 2025
Photo taken: Apr 7 2024
Location: Berkeley CA, corner of Dwight Way and Shattuck Ave
Number:
Notes: This phone is beautiful and works! Sadly don't have the number. It is my favorite payphone as it is in a beautiful area (there are a surprising amount of payphones in this part of Berkeley), and is relatively clean.
Works as of: Feb 24 2024
Photo taken: Feb 24 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: Mar 12, 2024
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, Balboa Fun Zone
Number: 949-673-9925
Notes: Lots of graffiti, does not work
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Photo taken: April 27, 2024
Location: Burlingame, CA, Broadway Caltrain Station
Number: 650-348-9620 (left), 650-348-9718 (right)
Notes: These 2 are beautiful and functional! Both on the Broadway Caltrain station platform.
Works as of: May 6 2024
Photo taken: May 6, 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA, Powell or Montgomery St Muni train platform, I don't remember which one
Number:
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. Some phones in the Market St. subway have coin guards, one is at Van Ness Sta.
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Photo taken: July 8 2024
Location: San Mateo, CA, outside Suruki supermarket
Number:
Notes: Very old-looking yet well preserved. No graffiti at all.
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Photo taken: July 11 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA, Kaiser Permanente hospital lobby on Geary and Divisadero
Number: Really wish I have it
Notes: This phone is beautiful! Very clean and functioning. 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. Notice the top info card has another behind it.
Works as of: July 12 2024
Photo taken: July 12 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA, 16th St. Mission BART station
Number: 415-865-9900 (left)
Notes: Never seen this style of enclosure before. Don't have the right phone's number and that one had no dial tone but the left phone worked great. Very clean. 2 similar phones are at the 24th st mission station
Works as of: July 16, 2024 (left only)
Photo taken: July 16 2024
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!
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Photo taken: July 18, 2024
Location: New York City
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.
Location: San Francisco, CA, Civic Center Muni station platform
Number:
Notes: imagine if it worked. Similar phone and enclosure upstairs on the station lobby
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Photo taken: Oct 3, 2024
Location: San Mateo, CA, Hillsdale Shopping Center, under foodcourt escalator by Califonia pizza
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: Sep 22, 2024
Photo taken: Sep 22 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA, Castro Muni train station platform
Number:
Notes: Was once my favorite payphone with the 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
Location: San Francisco, CA, Van Ness Muni train station lobby/ticket area
Number:
Notes: I remember this phone. I made a call last in 2023, I don't remember when. Next time I checked on it the handset speaker was ripped out. Has not worked since and has only gotten worse in condition.
Works as of: Sometime in 2023
Location: San Francisco, CA, Civic Center Muni train station
Number:
Notes: I vaguely remember this phone, there is at least one working and one dead (pictured above) in the train station. The working one is maintained by PTS and is clean.
Works as of: June 2024
Location: San Francisco, CA, West Portal Muni train lobby/ticketing area
Number:
Notes: The only phone I knew that had a bright yellow handset. I think at one point it was operated by Phone 1 but since changed ownership to Precision Pay Phone. It was relatively clean and worked but stopped late 2023-early 2024.
Works as of: Mid 2023
Location: San Francisco, CA, Forest Hill Muni train lobby/ticketing area
Number:
Notes: Had worked a number of years ago but the phone was removed and I don't know when. The enclosure is still there, and is beautiful and made of wood.
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Location: San Francisco, CA, Church Muni train station platform
Number:
Notes: Similar to the Castro station phone but dirtier and broken. Former Pac Bell.
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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 does work but you can hear a loud dialtone on both ends of a call. It's very dirty but does work!
Works as of: 2023 (I should check up on this one)
Location: San Francisco, CA, Powell St Muni train station ticketing area
Number: 415 421 9101
Notes: clean and maintaned by PTS. One of 5+ in the entire station.
Works as of: Feb 23, 2025
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