Congrats, Alex! We would love something like that. We face the same issues and of course I don't want something just run of the mill...I am now officially on the hunt. Thanks for the inspiration.
Felicity Cubes&Crayons Outside the Cube On Mar 30, 7:14 pm, Alex Hillman <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> 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/1bcomlWith original Bell > Telephone decalshttp://twitpic.com/1bcommFolding door open, from the > sidehttp://twitpic.com/1bcoqhThat awesome vintage sign (OMG long distance!? > Dial by Number!?)http://twitpic.com/1bcvuiAnd 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 cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
