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Umm, link? photos? location?
I googled it.
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.
The central tower in Stockholm was pretty impressive in its sheer absurdity though.
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?
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.
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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