Phone Booth on a Roof

Lincoln, Illinois

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.




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PERCHED ATOP THE FIRE HOUSE in Lincoln, Illinois is a lone phone box that seems to have simply fallen out of the sky and landed on the building, but in fact the glass phone enclosure was installed to help warn against massive storms.

During the 1960s weather prediction technology was not what it is today, but the need for the service was possibly even more pressing. The simplest way to find out what was coming was to get to a high vantage point and take a look. Unfortunately under high winds and rains, this presented its own problems. However the technology for keeping people safe from the elements while they talked on the phone had already arrived in the form of the classic phone booth


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