Old Phones at Hotel Roanoke (Virginia)

[Nick in Manitou]

Went to a wedding in Southwest Virginia over the weekend and stayed at the Hotel Roanoke.

The hotel was originally built in 1882 and was significantly changed in the 1930s or so, but it has a nice balance of old feeling and modern convenience.

Near the front desk are a couple old built-in phone booths with some older phones and in the lobby the house phone is a 302.  They all apparently work (they get you to the hotel operator).

I just thought it was great that a place like that would have interesting phones.

My wife took the photos with her phone...(I should point out that the hotel was very nice and clean although there was definitely something spilled on the shelf below one of the phones.)

[AE_Collector]

My wife took the photos with her phone

I bet your wife didn't realize that those phones were taking pictures of your wife and her phone as well!

It is neat seeing old phones in use like that. I sold a guy my NE 555 Cord Board a few years back as he wanted to install it in his Bed and Breakfast and he put AE 40's in all of the rooms. I only sold the 555 because I knew where I could easily get a replacement.

Terry

[George Knighton]

Went to a wedding in Southwest Virginia over the weekend and stayed at the Hotel Roanoke.

The first time I stayed there I somehow ended up in the President's Suite, and it was very hard to get over the cut red velvet wallpaper.  It looked more like a nineteenth century bordello than something anybody's president would want to stay in.

:-)

But you're perfectly right...it's a wonderful blend of old and new and I've always been very glad they found a way to keep it going.

[Dan/Panther]

WOW ! Terry, I didn't know that.
Is it the NSA ?
D/P

[decked002]

A touch of modern day Mayberry ....