Speaking of phone booths, I have an old glass/aluminum phone booth at my house. Vintage 60's I would guess. In very nice shape. I even bought a reproduction old black dial phone for it. Put a few coins in it for affect. I had it alongside one of my sheds. A few years ago, a woman came by and saw it. Now, this phone booth was 176' down my driveway, off the main road. She walked down to it and stole the phone out of it. My wife caught the tail end of the theft, got dressed and found her car about a mile down the road. She was at a deli. Saw the phone on her back seat and reclaimed it. Went into the deli and gave her a serious case of baboon ass in addition to calling the police and she was arrested. Had to move the phonebooth location as to not invite trouble again. Sometime after that, I saw what appeared to be a racoon tail hanging down above the door which was partially open. Had the grandkids over the previous day and I thought it was one of their hats they had been wearing. Took a closer look. Holy crap, there were two racoons sound asleep. Kind of scared me some. I did everything I could to wake them up; no way. I left the door wide open and the following day, they were gone. I think they called a cab to come get them lol.Sadly, not many left. Like trying to find a phone booth.
I worked with a guy who had a side contract with the phone company to get rid of the phonebooths in our area. Was replacing them with something smaller and easier to maintain. They wanted them all destroyed. Taken to the local dump/landfill. I found out about it and was able to get one. A city close to me was also eliminating parking meters. They had a ton of them which were destroyed. Found out about them too late. Ever see the price of some of these nostalgic items at flea markets?? Holy crap. You have to leave your first born. What I found very expensive were the old stand alone air pumps. Ones restored nicely, more then $1000.00, Carmine.I often wondered if any of those old phone booths surived! They are so cool. I have too many possessions now or I'd get one!!
Well in a Spitfire there shouldn't be any back seat shenanigans should you happen to take in a drive-in movie tonight!
I may have modified my wife's seats to lay down.
