Flashback to the Past: A Telephone Booth

Once upon a time, there was no such thing as a cell phone.

People that just HAD to stay connected wore pagers.

Most people were content with an answering machine at home.

If someone had an answering machine; that meant that they did not have a party line.

If someone needed to place a call, they used a phone in a telephone booth.

Just this last weekend, I found an old telephone booth in a museum. The phone was so old that the hand set and mouth piece were separate.

Can you imagine conducting real estate business without a cell phone?

I stumbled across this old telephone booth at the Cripple Creek District museum in Cripple Creek, Colorado. The Cripple Creek/Victor District was the home to over 500 gold mines at one time. Cripple Creek is about an hour away from Colorado Springs.

Colorado: See It. Experience It. Live It.