Alexis Wood received a notification on her phone. It was an anonymous call from a pay phone. She listened and was momentarily paralyzed. And then she couldn’t stop crying. The call wasn’t completely ...

A new project in Los Angeles invites you to use a payphone to say goodbye to something or someone. The artists behind “The Goodbye Line” say they have been receiving a range of messages and are now ...

The Goodbye Line is an art project found on pay phones throughout the Los Angeles area. Hearing the goodbyes of others makes life “less lonely, less scary,” says Adam Trunell, left, who created the ...

Todd Martens is a features columnist at the Los Angeles Times who writes about theme parks and West Coast Experiences, among other topics. Martens joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007 and has covered ...