Bought this lineman's (guys that climb poles) phone for five bucks at the Habitat for Humanity store. No idea what to do with it (I haven't had a landline for a decade) but the 70s-80s sci-fi aesthetic is wonderful. I can just imagine picking it up and hearing Han Solo's death star intercom conversation coming out. Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
#starwars #scifi #props
@jstevenyork The ones to collect are the older Western Electric ones used by Bell linemen. Beautiful 60s and 70s aesthetics on those models.
@alexr
Yeah, this isn't as old as I thought, and in fact, you can still buy them new I've discovered (for $200+ US!). Don't know how long it's actually been around.