Crank phone Monument

Twenty-five years nearly to the day after the last hand-crank phone call was made in Bryant Pond of Bethel, Maine - a 14-foot tall sculpture made by Gil Whitman of the old-style phone was dedicated on the common. The Bethel Citizen reports via Fierce Telecom.

"The Bryant Pond Telephony Company operated the last operating handcrank phone service in the U.S., with the switchboard operated in the living room of owners Elden and Barbara Hathaway.

Phone calls were routed through by family members -- sometimes while cooking dinner or doing laundry."

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