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Switchboard

This old telephone switchboard was fantastic. I wanted to shoot more of it however I knew I only had limited time down here before I'd contract something from the spores.
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Great shot ,Motts but you don't belong there for any length of time ..
ferdy
Thu 11-10-2011
You should consider taking along some kind of gas mask, Motts...
JRB
Thu 11-10-2011
I was just about to ask in the last frame how you lasted down here with no breathing protection. Especially when you said the flashlight lit up the spores floating around. Risky at best.
Jason
Thu 11-10-2011
Oh god their lodging in the switch board.
Nasty stuff.
A D Nilsen
Thu 11-10-2011
Hey, some of those folks are still plugged in. I wonder what the last conversations on that board were about.
MomPink
Fri 11-11-2011
Operator...operator...

I need to make a call to...*KOFF KOFF*... My family doctor....*HACK WHEEZE*...

*Thunk*
MamaToFiveInPA
Fri 11-11-2011
This is sooo awesome! Im with you MomPink. They are still plugged in! One had to be for more towels and another for room service, and can you possibly do anything about the noise in room 203.
LucieLou
Fri 11-11-2011
Mama and Lucie: ROFL!!!
MomPink
Fri 11-11-2011
Conversations frozen in time. Pretty well preserved considering. I wonder if this stuff is still here today.
Larry D
Sat 11-12-2011
This is what Lily Tomlin's set on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in might look like now...
Icewox
Sat 11-12-2011
"One ringy-dingy, two ringy..." *snort* *wheeze* *plop*
autoguy
Sat 11-12-2011
Had a switch board like this in the dorm I lived in freshman year. (not telling when) It was fun to make the connections.
Claudia
Sun 11-13-2011
I always wonder what the person was doing when they walked away from equipment for the last time.
AvalonSeeker
Wed 11-30-2011
You seem to travel around in the eastern part of Germany a lot, so here's a little advise: you can buy old NVA NBC suites for less than 15€ at every street corner, gas masks with air filter cost less than 5 bucks.

Despite them being over 20 years old, they're still working fine. Many people use them for this exact purpose (including me) and nobody has ever complained.

http://www.wolfhazmat.de/military_nvaabc.htm

The sniper variant of the gas mask costs a little more, but I guess it's more convinient when you operate the camera.
Chaosritter
Thu 12-15-2011
This is the kind of switchboard I worked on while stationed in Korea. It was actually really fun to work with. "Camp Page, Specialist Frett speaking, how may I help you, sir?" The ma'ams always got upset when you called them sirs, but how did you know until they talked , right?
liza
Fri 02-10-2012
I used to work with a switch board like that when I was a desk clerk for the US Army in Garmisch. Coming to work in 1990 was lik egoing back in time each day I slipped behind the front desk for my shift ...looking at the pic is a trip down memory lane:) Great photos!!
GAPgirl
Tue 02-28-2012

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