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chevy59
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I thought this was an interesting piece I picked up from an auction a while back, a working phone inside an antique fire alarm call box with a red light on top. I think in the future the phone inside the box will be obsolete since everyone is using cell phones and doing away with their landlines. This is the only landline phone inside our house and its never used.
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