Western Electric Phone Booth

[cokemachinesandmore]

what year is your booth, i had one just like it. I believe mine was from 1964. if you get in the booth and close the door look up in the corner of the door it will have the date

[mznb1u]

I hace a couple of old dial telephones--Automatic Electric Jukebox phone and and older Automatic Electric Wall phone and they both work fine on Vonage using the rotary dial.

  Tim

[ClassicCokeLover]

How do I get my Magic Jack to work on this? LOL

[scalebowler]

How do I get my Magic Jack to work on this? LOL

I bet you can actually dial numbers on a phone like that. I know that you can quickly tap the hang up button on a phone the number of times for each number in the phone number that you are dialing and if you are fast enough the phone system thinks that you just dialed using a rotary phone

[mznb1u]

How do I get my Magic Jack to work on this? LOL

I think you have to call Mr. Drucker over at the general store and he will put the call through for you!  Or perhaps, Mr. Haney has something in his truck full of sundries and notions that will make that phone dial out!

  Tim

[ClassicCokeLover]

Too funny! Sam Drucker, wow that brings back the memories. This phone is a pre-dial dated 1930. It came out of the last operating magneto office area in Maine, back in the late 70's early 80's. I've owned it for the past 31 years. Works too!

[jholmgren]

I have a lot of family in rural Ireland.   

Until the very early 90's we would have to call the local general store who would take the message, dispatch someone on bicycle to the farm to get the person to come back to the store.  They would wait there and we would call back from the US in an hour to talk to them.

Now everyone has mobile phones, kind of a bummer.

Jim

[kstt]

My booth (original post) is a 1966. I ended up with a push-button ATT payphone. It works like a regular phone - that is, it doesn't require coins. And, I don't have keys for the coin box anyway. I always wanted to swap it out with a rotary, but........$$$.

Anyway, I still have not been able to get the lamp bezel or fan difusser out. I removed the moldings on the perimeter - that didn't help. There's a 1/4" plywood top on the cabinet; I removed that, and it exposed the fan, but clearly, the lamp and diffuser are NOT accessible from the top. There HAS to be a way to remove the diffuser from inside the booth, and that probably exposes the access for the lamp bezel. But I'm still stumped. I may have to get a better photo of that for you guys.

[Kilroy]

I have a '53 WE,  and it uses one thumbscrew to  drop the light bezel. 
 
Have you tried  prying the laight straight down? I would think it would be on arms that lower allowing access to change the bulb.   It has to be something inside the   booth to access,

[kbareit]

I got mine in the house today as a surprise for my wifes birthday. Thanks Tim (MZNB1U) for the booth and Slider Bob for finding the light up telephone sign. I still need to clean it up and get a phone but my wife should be happy it's in place now.