Detroit Police Call Box

[Mike McLellan]

I “liberated” this call box when I was a kid in Detroit. I’ve used it over the years to rig up an outside extension phone on the porch or deck of the various houses that I’ve lived in. This was long before such things as cordless phones. Now, however, with iphones, Blackberries, etc. this neat old box is just a relic of Detroit’s past with no relevance to today’s needs. I’d like to use it for something, but what? Any ideas?





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[JPriest]

How about as a gun safe?

 

[-db-]

Mike, I wouldn't use it for anything but look into restoring it instead. I would imagine collectors of such things would love to have it. If you scroll down a bit on this page, you can see how they originally looked: Police Call Box

More here: http://www.ushandcuffs.com/CallBoxes.html

 

[jinx]

I have a birthday toward the end of the month. Might make me a nice gift.
Actually, I have a couple of boxes{not police call boxes} that I use to store ammo. They are mounted in several places in my home and at a cabin in the woods. They look nice, decorate, and nobody knows that they store ammo.

 

[Aticus]

If that's the original lock I'd look into the cost of restoration. Having a box with the original lock that works would be a real find for a collector!

 

[Biginge]

Looks like a handcuff key?

 

[shouldazagged]

I second the restoration idea. That would be a wonderful thing to have.

 

[J. W.]

Very cool! Definitely restore it.


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[JayCeeNC]

Installed in your man cave, it could probably hold two bottles of very special booze.

 

[Abbynormal]

keep it in the back yard, put a bottle of "Rebel Yell" bourbon and a few glasses in it. Wait for Charlie Sherrill to show up

 

[feralmerril]

In one of his books joesph wambaugh told of a old cop he worked with that had a bottel of booze stored in several of them to make it through his beat!

 

[labworm]

Talk about a conversation piece, nice.

 

[Hack]

...Kevyn Orr (Detroit's emergency financial manager), would like to have that item back...

...Might also explain why it takes from two hours to two days for the Detroit PD to respond to a crime....

...Something just wrong about that white Princess phone inside the Cop box...

...Didn't most of those come with a bottle of booze inside? (I know the letter carrier drop boxes did...)

 

[Dominus_Lex]

11 USC 542 requires the following.....

"(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) or (d) of this section, an entity, other than a custodian, in possession, custody, or control, during the case, of property that the trustee may use, sell, or lease under section 363 of this title, or that the debtor may exempt under section 522 of this title, shall deliver to the trustee, and account for, such property or the value of such property, unless such property is of inconsequential value or benefit to the estate."

Given the trials and tribulations of the City of Detroit, I think you should return the "property of the city" and help us save some of the cities art collection...... Aside from that I like the idea of using it to store the bottle (or two) of your choice.

 

[shouldazagged]

...Something just wrong about that white Princess phone inside the Cop box...

Damn right there is! I don't do bottles anymore, but the thing sure would look good with some kind of rotary-dial phone.

 

[pmosley]

A light for the man cave perhaps?

An ADT fire alarm pull box from 1959 - dismantled during an upgrade in the early 90's, lovingly restored by my wife and turned into a lamp by a small lamp repair shop back when there were such things.

It has graced our home in various places since then. It now resides in a special spot in my game room.

While it doesn't hide any whiskey, there is likely some deftly stored within a reasonable proximity.

 

[Comrad]

Obviously an ill gotten gain, send it to me immediately to absolve your soul.

That's very cool.

 

[charlie sherrill]

It would definitely make a cool bourbon cabinet. It even has a lock to keep those uninvited out of it. When I started as a LEO in 1969 all officers started out walking a beat downtown. They had just transitioned from call boxes to those extra large Motorola walki-talkies. They weighed several pounds. The call boxes were still in place and still worked but they didn't use them anymore. A couple of years after I started they took them down. The phone guy taking them down offered me one. I still regret not taking it. I later saw a pile of them at the local scrap yard and still had a chance to get one but didn't. When they were in use the beat patrolmen had to check in on one every fifteen minutes. We also did this with the WT's for a while. I guess old habits are hard to break.

 

[kennyb]

hmmmm...karma time?

 

[walnutred]

Our Ordnance Depot had an amnesty box where people could turn in live munitions. It was rigged so that when you opened the lid a large, very real looking spider dropped down.