When you're hunting these machines

[Eric]

This isn't soda related.... But thought in your travels if
you should ever run across this rare phone it would help
pay for the gas and a little more...
As some of you may know I collect a little bit of everything.
Since I work for the phone company... I started, of course
collecting, phones...
Here is an example of the first desk set (White background)
It's a A1 model made only for a few months before the
102 model (red background) came out... Both have round bases (NOT oval) the difference is the neck of the cradle...
the A1 has text and looks like a candle stick cut down... there's patent wording on this area also to where the 102 neck and base is all one piece and has no text.
Also a difference in price... the 102 model (red background)
goes up to $300 restored while the A1 (white background)
goes up to $1500.00 in about any condidtion as long as it's complete... it can be found with or without a dial....
I'm always on the look but thought heck pass it on to you
all also... would be a great find and a great way to help you
guys make money for this hobby...
Just a fun thing to be looking out for also...

[Monkey Boy]

I kind of collect everything too. I don't know why but I just like the things of the past. My dad say's HE!! I grew up with that cr@p why would I want it, and why do you.... Anyway I would like to find an old pay phone, and a candle stick phone in working order.  I want my garage to look like a filling station and want a  pay phone for it.  The Candle Stick phones I just think are pretty cool, and want one for T.V. room. Times were hard back then from what I hear but it's still is a very interesting time in America.

[sodaworks]

I have a old chrome 50's pay phone that we had gone through. It is used daily in our living room. It came out of a casino in Las Vegas. You should see the look on our kid's friends face when they try to use it. Most of them have never seen a rotary phone before. '>

[Kilroy]

DON'T For the love of Pete payphones are evil!
My sad story,
I always wanted a payphone (i blame the brady Bunch episode where Mike puts one in the family room) picked up the payphone at a local shop, then spent a summer restoring a 1953 wooden phonebooth for the payphone,  decided it would be really cool if the phonebooth had a flange sign, and now have a half dozen signs or so from regional phone companies, (Pennsylvania Bell, New England Bell, At&T flange signs)
Now I am trying to find a metro Detroit phone (born and raised)  book from the 50's to go into the phonebooth, since I hunted down a phonebook cover of the era, and chased down a NOS chain and clip for the book cover.
Now I have the phonebooth in my parent's garage, the signs wrapped and looking for a new place to set everything up.

Don't go there, it is an obsession worse than pop machines.

[halehouse]

It ended, but a book something like this?detroit directory

[Kilroy]

Dan,
Exactly, wellmaybe a little older, tokeep with the '50's them I envison my one day game room to be.

A friend of mine is into geneology, and explained people doing family trees  are always on the lookout for phone books to locate family, verify relationships, and make crank phone calls. So when a book comes up for sale on Ebay or a region or city they are looking for,it's a bidding war. (prolly the same people who tell their friends, "$8500 for an old pop machine? Why?"
$57 would buy quite a few cases of coke, but a phone book? I'm obsessed, not crazy.

[Eric]

I bought some old phone books from a local auction they date from the 50s and I found
my grandparents and great uncles names in them.... I have their numbers on my old phone dials...
just another thing to set by the machines.....
Great bottler ads in these phone books too a good way to hunt down old plants and vendors...