FOR SALE -- Payphone and Pay from Car sign and related on Akron Craigslist

[Fleetcmat]

Hello all, I have some stuff on craigslist. I have inserted the link here. I am flexible on pricing. Let me know you are a forum membré and I will offer my best pricing to members. The one item I can not budge on price is the phone booth topper. I have almost as much in it as I have it listed for. Thanks!

https://akroncanton.craigslist.org/clt/d/payphones-phone-booth/6189564830.html ( dead link 02-21-21 )

[Jim Stettler]

Interesting, I have never seen a "drive up"  Phone sign. All the ones i have seen are the "Phone from" type.
Jim S.

[Alex G. Bell]

Interesting, I have never seen a "drive up"  Phone sign. All the ones i have seen are the "Phone from" type.
Jim S.

In the 1960s NY Tel installed payphones on pedestals on entrance or exit ramps of some parkways so that drivers could pull up to them, reach out and use them, theoretically without getting out of the car.  Or at least that was the idea.  How well it worked, given variations in vehicle height, is another topic. 

Some of these parkways had "cloverleaf" entrance and exit ramps so that you could exit, use the phone while on the ramp and re-enter.  I believe these were also "signed" as "drive-up" phones and well lit so they could be recognized at a distance from the road main.

[Jim Stettler]

They did the same thing in the Western states. All of the signs I have seen for them have been "Phone from Car". They did try out mounting heights for other modes of transportation.
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=16255.msg168459#msg168459



Jim S.

[Alex G. Bell]

They did the same thing in the Western states. All of the signs I have seen for them have been "Phone from Car". They did try out mounting heights for other modes of transportation.
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=16255.msg168459#msg168459
Jim S.

I don't recall the exact wording of the signs but a perusal of the public phone signs BSP (probably in the TCI library, maybe 508-xxx-xxx) might show examples of the AT&T standard.

[Fleetcmat]

All of the signs as I recall in NE Ohio had "drive up" at one time or another. I have used plenty of them back in the day.

[TelePlay]

A "Phone from Car sign was spotted on Craigslist about 4 years ago.

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