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Restored
Circa: 1999 - 1920s, Restored antique payphone, great decorative items
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1950's Replica Pay PhoneThis classic model replica telephone will take you back to the days of old fashioned phone booths and five-cent calls.Drop in a coin and you'll hear the original brass jingle, and the pushbuttons even have an authentic rotary look. Wall or desk mountable with heavy-duty ABS plastic cabinet, chrome accents, full featured coin bank with lock and key, ringer control and tone/pulse switchable. Unlike the heavy payphone that were used in the 1950s, this is a light weight 7 pounds. The phone works with or without putting in a coin. Available in Red or Black See Close-Up PHOTO of the push button rotary dial
Approx. Dimensions 9"w x 18 1/4"h x 6 1/2"d
Price: $149.95 plus $24 shipping
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Country Kitchen Replica Wall PhoneThe crank handle actually turns. This classic looking phone is similar to the one first introduced in the 1920's, but today's replica features touch-tone buttons with a rotary look.The handcrafted wood and veneer cabinet is enhanced with brass-plated hardware and includes a recipe-style compartment. Phone has volume controls for ringer and receiver and hold and speaker phone features.
Approx. Dimensions 12"w x 17 1/2"h x 7"d Unlike the heavy wall phones that were used in the 1920s, this lightweight replica is under 10 pounds, making it easy to hang on a wall.
Price: $149.95 plus $24 shipping (CR-92-OA)
Delivery: 3 - 8 days
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Dexluxe Antique Phone Booth
Here is a quarter sawn oak phone booth that measures approximately
43 inches in width, 39 inches in depth, and 6'8" on height. It comes apart for easier shipping and movement into your house.
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The following list of payphone highlights is excerpted from an AT&T press release.
(Moose were not as shy when they first encountered outdoor pay
phones. When Bell Laboratories designed a new glass and
aluminum outdoor telephone booth in the 1950s, it was a great
advancement over the wooden outdoor booths that had been in use
for a number of years. And yet several booths ordered by the
U.S. National Park Service were found mysteriously broken and
battered. Park rangers soon knew the answer, though: It was
mating season for moose. Amorous--but territorial--bulls
were charging the booths whenever they saw their reflections in
the glass.)
The "original" telephone booth is credited to Thomas Watson,
the man who helped Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone.
Watson's "booth" was made by draping blankets over the
furniture in his room and crawling underneath to conduct early
telephone experiments. One story says Watson, in order to
hear, was insulating himself from street noises. Another story
is that his landlady ordered Watson to be quieter; his
shouting, albeit for the sake of science, was disturbing other
boarders.
In 1883 Watson designed a real booth. It was built of
expensive wood, had a domed top with a ventilator, windows with
screens, and a desk with pen and ink.
Over the years, telephone booths have reflected their
surroundings as well as the times. There have been phone
booths resembling cable cars in San Francisco, and others
resembling pagodas in New York City's Chinatown district. In
the 1960s, as American architects designed glass-wall office
buildings, wooden phone booths looked out of place in lobbies.
Bell Laboratories designed an indoor glass and metal phone
booth to better fit newer surroundings.
Not all of the designs for phone booths have reached the
market. An experimental "hands-free" booth in 1972 featured a
microphone in front of the caller and a loudspeaker in the
booth's ceiling. Observers noted that people readily tried the
new arrangement but that, conditioned to speaking in the
direction another voice is coming from, they were all shouting
into the ceiling.
Issued by AT&T, October 2, 1991
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