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Payphone Go is a scavenger hunt for California’s last payphones

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 06, 2026
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Los Angeles payphone (mikeledray/shutterstock.com)

California still has 2,203 licensed payphones, and now there’s a game for hunting them down. Payphone Go, created by Riley Walz, maps every working payphone in the state. The database comes from California’s Public Utilities Commission, which Walz pried open through a public records request — the PUC sti…

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