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Started by the phone house, January 10, 2014, 09:17:26 AM

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the phone house

Found this yesterday in Georgia, Bemmer-Nawman Oakland, California
Not For Sale, lady runs a garage, keeps her Chicken in the Booth!
Never saw one like it, how did it get to Georgia??
Steve @ The Phone House

wds

I'm looking at the tail end of a very old VW bug.  Wonder if that's for sale also.......
Dave

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Quote from: the phone house on January 10, 2014, 09:17:26 AM
Found this yesterday in Georgia, Bemmer-Nawman Oakland, California
Not For Sale, lady runs a garage, keeps her Chicken in the Booth!
Never saw one like it, how did it get to Georgia??

..." Keeps her chicken in the booth .."Frankly this cabin could be used for other thing to keep chickens ..  She really doesn't know what to do with this cabin...



the phone house

Dave,
There are two VW Convertables there, the Red one is her's kinda like the Booth, Not For Sale, there is a Yellow and Black one that belongs to a customer, will ask next time I go by and beg for the Booth!
Steve @ The Phone House

G-Man

Quote from: the phone house on January 10, 2014, 09:17:26 AM
Found this yesterday in Georgia, Bemmer-Nawman Oakland, California
Not For Sale, lady runs a garage, keeps her Chicken in the Booth!
Never saw one like it, how did it get to Georgia??

Not very astounding that it was found in Georgia since they were once a very common telephone booth. Benner Nawman was renowned for producing the very first aluminum and glass booth.

"Gus Benner and Rollie Nawman formed a partnership and founded the company in 1925 as a sheet metal fabricator in Oakland, California. Benner-Nawman became a corporation in 1946. In 1950, the Pacific Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company of San Francisco, California asked Benner-Nawman to design and fabricate a phone booth made from aluminum, glass and steel.

From 1950 to 1999, the company's primary business was the fabrication and assembly of public telephone booths and accessories, selling hundreds of thousands of units in the United States and into over 40 countries worldwide."

Phonesrfun

Quote from: the phone house on January 10, 2014, 10:28:20 AM
Dave,
There are two VW Convertables there, the Red one is her's kinda like the Booth, Not For Sale, there is a Yellow and Black one that belongs to a customer, will ask next time I go by and beg for the Booth!

Sounds like what you would see on an episode of the TV show "American Pickers".  Many of the people that have stuff just don't want to sell.

-Bill G