Wow, amazing. Just the glass panel.
Slightly OT, but somebody posted about these retro handsets yesterday. This cracks me up. I should get one just to walk around the neighborhood with my phone in my pocket chatting on the phone with my sister!
“It’s weird that you can find hundreds of such photos of British phone booths, but hardly any of a USA phone booth graveyard.”
I have an 1892 Ericsson “Eiffel Tower Skeleton” phone, that I paid $5 for at a garage sale in Des Moines, in 1970, while going to college at Drake U, that is now worth $2,000 - $3,000, in original condition. A friend in Niagara Falls, who worked for Bell Tel, modified it to work with today’s phone system.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/132913935597
That friend told me that the company notified all employees to locate and buy-up the booth, or especially the top etched/painted glass, as it would be very valuable in coming years. I have a Bell Telephone, light blue on frosted horizontal glass panel, that’s worth almost as much as the phone.
The employees own most of that stuff now, but occasionally one appears at an auction, in original condition, and fetches big money. The Brit red booths are much more common and can be had for $4-7k, ion good condition. The BellTel stuff sells for a LOT more.
No, I’m not a “Picker”, but have run into and seen the stuff, over the past 25-30yrs, in my travels.
Wow, amazing. Just the glass panel.
Slightly OT, but somebody posted about these retro handsets yesterday. This cracks me up. I should get one just to walk around the neighborhood with my phone in my pocket chatting on the phone with my sister!