Canyon Club #Cocktails has a fantastic storefront. The sign is primo #retro, with the arrow beckoning you to duck in. The brickwork and circular window are great touches, too. It’s a cool nod to the Grand Caynon in Williams, which bills itself as the gateway to the #grandcanyon. #route66
The retrolicious interior of the El Camino Family Restaurant in #Socorro, #newmexico #retro #madmen #retrolamps #eamesera #googie
The El Camino Family Restaurant in #Socorro, #newmexico There are no words to describe this #googie goodness. #oldsigns #retrosigns #signporn #vintage #retro #roadeats #americana #retro
A true #retro #motel masterpiece: The Sun N Sand in Santa Rosa #NewMexico. Follow my #vintage site www.theretrologist.com for more posts like this every day. #neon #googie #architecture
There’s definitely a vacancy at the #Lasso Motel in #tucumcari #newmexico. Great weathered relic of the American road — love the color TV sign that’s still attached. #retro #vintage #roadtrip
We’ve seen at least two motels called the Western: This sign is from the defunct Western Motel in San Jon, #newmexico What a beauty, with its rusted metal and neon tubes barely hanging on. #relics #route66 #vintage #retro #forgotten
A #bowling pin greets you as you enter #route66 classic Crestwood Bowl and Cocktail Lounge. #retro #oldschool
The Tropics #Cocktail Lounge and #Coffee Shop. This gorgeous sign survives, but the joint is now closed, alas. #neon #tropics #polynesian #tiki #retro #vintage #route66
How crooks called their lawyers in the 1970s: Brooklyn police precinct pay phone is a holdover from the ‘Serpico’ era
This NYPD blue pay phone is all shades of awesome.
I spotted it from the sidewalk outside the 76th Precinct in Cobble
Hill, Brooklyn, and quickly ducked into the foyer to snap a quick
photo, successfully avoiding any scrutiny from the fuzz.
I knew I had to stop because I quickly surmised the phone was packing
a lot of history and adding some old-school cinematic grit to the
precinct.
What’s most special about it is its futuristic blue
casing, which includes a cubbyhole for the phone book. This phone is
pure 1970s Bell System, and features the 1969 Saul Bass-designed Bell
symbol next to the word “Phone.”
The phone also preserves a throwback of the 1990s; note the presence
of the NYNEX logo on the top left. The rate cards are from the Verizon
era, but even that is vintage, as Verizon pulled out of the pay phone
business.
Think about how long this phone had been there. It’s witnessed some of
New York scariest, crime-ridden days.
If only we could hear the conversations it has been privy to over the years. But this phone will take its secrets to the grave, and given the state of the pay phone
biz, that day is not too far off.
— Rolando Pujol
