I'd like to say "Hello" and thanks to Dennis for letting me join. I'm Dan Gilmore. I'm a firefighter from central Ohio who just recently started to seriously collect telephones. I currently have 15 phones in my small collection, including 3 payphones. I'm looking forward to learning more about old telephones.
Welcome to the sickness ;)
got any pics of your collection?
Dan,
Welcome to the CRPF . I have found this is a great place to be , we all have same condition ;D ! stub
Welcome! I usually give new mwmbers a warning about Phoneitis but it is too late for you. Enjoy the asylum!
Welcome to CRPF Dan.
Welcome to the forum! Lot of help available here...more than anywhere else!
Benny
Thanks everyone! Glad to be here. I'll post a few pics of my collection in a while.
Welcome Dan, I'm sure you will enjoy this forum.
Welcome to the forum.
Harry has already warned you, so I guess you know what you are stepping in to. ;D
dsk
Here's one of my phones
pic 4. The first phone I actually paid for. I'm pretty sure that receiver and cord aren't supposed to be on this phone.
pic 6. This phone was from a closed down mall in Columbus, Ohio. It was given to me as a gift. I paid $25 for the booth.
pic 7 From the OSU / Shottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio
pic 8 $10.00 trimline.
pic 13
pic 16. This is probably my favorite phone. I was able to trace down the phone number and found that the number was assigned to Orient State Institution, which was an institution that housed MRDD and other people with "issues" from around Ohio. Some of the residents of Orient were sent there as children for stealing, defiance and bed wetting. My parents worked at Orient in the 1980s. It was closed down in the late 80s and turned into a prison.
Hi Dan Welcome! John here Rootstown, Ohio.
With that Western Electric 565 I can see a 1A2 Key System in your future. And of course a Panasonic 616 would connect all those other phones together.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/112553306276
There's no end to the stuff you can do, that your wife won't understand why you would want to do that!! But then again we can do that without phone stuff😀😀
Very nice collection so far! ;)
Actually, regarding that 3-slot Payphone, it appears that the dial is the non-original part of the phone, not the handset or cord. That looks like a Western Electric 3-slot, which seem to be more valuable and sought after than an Automatic Electric payphone of the same vintage. The dial is Automatic Electric.
Judging by the coin gauge and coin return button, I'd say that's a later 190 series, probably from the mid '50s. How complete is it inside?
Love the red 554 and the sign paired with it! Were those two always together or simply something you created? Either way, a nice conversation piece.
Quote from: ptfd121 on November 03, 2017, 05:43:34 PM
pic 16. This is probably my favorite phone. I was able to trace down the phone number and found that the number was assigned to Orient State Institution, which was an institution that housed MRDD and other people with "issues" from around Ohio. Some of the residents of Orient were sent there as children for stealing, defiance and bed wetting. My parents worked at Orient in the 1980s. It was closed down in the late 80s and turned into a prison.
I like this one mainy becaus it's got a good story behind it. I also like the fact you've left the sticker on the handset as it's a part of history that is often overlooked.
Finally got around to combining all of the images into 3 replies. I kept the text of any deleted single image topic in the topic that has the image and numbered the images in each reply to match the text about the phone.
A graphic posted in another topic recently is re-posted here to help people new to the forum see how to add up to 6 images to one reply.
The side of the pay phone has been gutted. I'm thinking it may be a Phoneco rebuild.