Quaint and often overlooked, payphones continue to provide an essential public service, with millions of free calls being placed each year
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A man I’ve never met stands at a payphone in Sydney’s central business district.
“A serene small park directly to the right of the payphone,” he says poetically into the receiver. “There’s a man with an interesting cap sitting down there, and an ibis. I guess they’ll be immortalised in this phone voicemail forever.”