Not too long ago, my friend Dug, knowing that I’d just purchased a former Michigan Bell Telephone building in Ypsilanti, put me in touch with a friend of his in Portland by the name of Karl Anderson. Karl, he told me, was looking for places to install “free payphones.” Well, late this last winter, Karl […]
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Futel’s campaign to bring back the public telephone, and the possibility that an Ypsilanti phone may be coming soon
Posted in 209 Pearl, Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged AT&T, C.H.V.N.K. 666, communications, cyberpunk, diplomacy, Dug Song, Duo Security, Futel, gamer zines, homeless encampments, Karl Anderson, Landline Creative Labs, mail art, Michigan Bell Telephone, mutant bicycles, Party Line, payphone, phreaking, play-by-mail, Portland, samizdat, social service, telecommunications, telephony, Ypsilanti Transit Station, zines 24 Comments