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The rooms at The Ned in London (a restored 1920s Bank, complete with a vault turned into a cocktail bar) also has Bakelites as phones in every room.
by frutiger 8y ago
The rooms at The Ned in London (a restored 1920s Bank, complete with a vault turned into a cocktail bar) also has Bakelites as phones in every room.
- B1FF_PSUVM 8y agoI suspect the TWA hotel ones are not bakelite telephones (cf. images from https://www.google.com/search?q=bakelite+telephone https://www.google.com/search?q=bakelite+telephone ). The bakelite phones had some edges and were really heavy. The photo seems a later 70s/80s model with a softer plastic shell that would not really hurt if tossed at you. I think they had to weigh those down with some metal inside,