It's not because I like to talk although that may be your first guess.
I have a sentimental affection for phones and phone booths etc. It's mostly because my Dad was a phone man. He began his career in November 1967 with the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia as a frame repairman.
After about a year or so he became an installer/repairman. He used to go into peoples houses to fix their phones and even had to climb a telephone pole or two. Around '80 or '81 he then became a PBX repairman which means he repaired big systems - those with 60 phones or more. He retired in 2000 with 33 years of service.
This is the phone in my Dad's workshop. I really like it because it's vintage. I used to want a princess phone because I thought they were fancy looking. Nowadays I'd rather have one like this.
This is a pic of me playing the phone game with a statue of Alexander Graham Bell on the streets of downtown Rapid City, SD.
South Dakota Air and Space Museum outside of Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Here are a couple of pics from the Greater Southwest Historical Museum.
Here's one of me making a call on the streets of Rapid City, SD.
And here I am again in lovely downtown Keystone SD.
I wonder who I am talking to??
This is a phone hanging on the wall of Wall Drug in Wall, SD.
This is a pic of a phone booth near my home. Sadly it is no longer there.
And no blog post would be complete without at least one Air Force pic. :) This is a picture of the phone booths at Lackland.
I wonder how many wonderful connections were made using these phones?
So now I try not to pass up an opportunity to take a photo of a phone or a phone booth or anything related to those things. It reminds me of my Dad and makes me smile.
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