Now that is an awesome piece of furniture. Something that I would want to be called for, just to use it. Awesome.
Arne On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:14 AM, 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]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- 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.
