Remembering Stanley Hammell's wonderful forest of glass insulators

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Umm, link? photos? location?

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I googled it.

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They look much nicer without wires on them. I’m definitely not nostalgic for the days of early telephone networks where cities were absolutely covered in a spiderweb of non-bundled, non insulated telephone wires.

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The central tower in Stockholm was pretty impressive in its sheer absurdity though.

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I got some of those in the garage, what I’ll do with them I haven’t a clue.

Can’t you grind the top flat, flip it over and use it as a shot glass?

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WTF! I just grabbed them and put them on the bar. Hey, get out’a my brain, better wash up after that too, it’s dirty in there.

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from old rr tracks near Corning, NY

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That Stockholm tower is metal af though. Behold the incipient internet!

It just so happens that I’m at a telephone museum right this minute and some of the switchboard equipment is a sight to behold:

Also, most of these vintage phone are connected and you can use them to call each other:

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