A questioner said:
What is this cubby inside kitchen of 1950’s home? Any idea?
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This was inside a home that my girlfriend and i are looking to rent. it does not go all the way through the wall, and is pretty small. We thought maybe it would be used for mail, but neither of us are certain
Some of the comments:
- Telephone nook/niche
- LOL. I was dropping off one of my kids at college and they had a cubby for a pay phone in the hallway and I asked all my kids who were there what it was. No idea. They couldn’t even comprehend why a phone would need to be there.
- We had this thing wired into the wall that had a dial on it. We used it to magically talk to people who weren’t in the same room, hell, maybe even down the street. Underneath, we had a doxx book.
- It’s a phone nook. Your landline phone would be in there (on the shelf or mounted on the wall) and paper/pens/phonebooks in the slot underneath.
- Phone goes on top.Phone book below.
- Okay this is cracking me up, because I IMMEDIATELY knew what this was for (I’m 35) but only JUST realized that the nook I have in my new apartment in a VERY old building (built as a hotel in 1896) is exactly this lol! It’s a lot bigger on top and below but I realize now that a phone at the time would have been much bigger!Wild! This is so cool 🙂 Mine is still kind of filled with random junk but I plan on turning it into an altar to the stuff I’m into spiritually eventually 🙂
- It’s a phone nook. The bottom shelf is for the phone book or paper for messages.
- Note: these were before wall phones were invented. All phones were desk phones in that era.
- It just tickles me that youngsters don’t know what that is.But then I’m 65 and don’t know what a “loot” box is either.
- Phone cubby. Used to have an old rotary phone in there.
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