That's awesome Alex. It just goes to show you that success is when preparation meets opportunity. Always keep your eyes open.
I'm compelled to share two anecdotes to accompany this victory. 1. When I helped co-found a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) back in the late 90's, we managed to score the glass doors to a facility in Easton, MD which had previously been the offices of C&P Telephone — on the doors: "C&P Telephone Engineering Office" and we had them installed behind a 15' wooden bar installed in the (otherwise rather humble) offices of the CLEC. Rockin' decor. 2. I was showing my 10 year old daughter some of the old Dr. Who intros on YouTube. She was looking at the strange rotating box and said, "He does time travel in a portable toilet?" Technology keeps moving along. :) Can't wait to see the booth. Dave On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected] > wrote: > Some of you may have seen this on Twitter, but I thought it'd be fun to > share here too. > > We've long had a very practical problem of the fact that Indy Hall just > isn't designed for people who spend all day on the phone. Which is fine, > people can work around that...but ultimately you need to take or make a call > once in a while! > > We've got a few conference rooms, social spaces, and even our balcony where > people step out to take a call that's more than a few minutes. > > In our current space, we've even set up a couple of makeshift "phone > booths" in closets and bathrooms that people reserve for conference calls. > > But...me being me...I've always wanted a real phone booth. > > Now, I did a fair amount of calling around to see if we could score one of > the old 90's Verizon booths, since they scrapped all of them in the early > 2000's, I figured they' end up in a junk yard somewhere in New Jersey. But > nobody at Verizon could locate that junk yard for me. > > Luckily, there's Craigslist. > > Having mentioned on more than one occasion my obsession with a phone booth, > one of our members spotted a vintage Bell Telephone booth on Craigslist and > sent it to our internal e-mail list. WAY better than those janky metal and > plastic Verizon ones, this one was WOOD and GLASS, pressed tin interior, and > even the vintage ad still in its sign holder. > > The price was right, and despite the need to carefully birth the 500+ pound > beast from a very narrow basement stairwell it's been sitting in for what > was presumably most of its life, she was was worth the wait. > > Check her out in all her glory: > http://twitpic.com/1bcoml With original Bell Telephone decals > http://twitpic.com/1bcomm Folding door open, from the side > http://twitpic.com/1bcoqh That awesome vintage sign (OMG long distance!? > Dial by Number!?) > http://twitpic.com/1bcvui And of course, her new home at Indy Hall > > The moral of the story is: it's always worth the wait. > > -Alex > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- Dave Troy meet with me: http://bit.ly/davemtg blog: www.davetroy.com (@davetroy) community: www.beehivebaltimore.org (@bhivebmore) investing: www.baltimoreangels.org (@baltimoreangels) events: @TEDxMidAtlantic, @barcampbmore, @socialdevcamp projects: www.twittervision.com, www.flickrvision.com Partner, Roundhouse Technologies -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
