{"id":179,"date":"2012-10-22T21:07:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T01:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:40:00","slug":"pay-to-call-massachusetts-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/pay-to-call-massachusetts-state-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay to Call: Massachusetts State House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These pictures are a mix from 2009 and an October 2010 visit to this landmark location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/img_6280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-180\" title=\"IMG_6280\" src=\"http:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/img_6280.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_6280.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_6280-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_6280-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_6280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_6280-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_6280-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These Bell System payphones are interesting.\u00a0 These phone booths were used back when the Massachusetts Legislature used to be a volunteer form of governing.\u00a0Back before the end of the 60s (or even later), there were only a handful of politicians that had corner offices of both the Senate and House of their General Court. So the other people that were the rank and file types, had to be mobile, and conduct their business in this micro cubicle called the phone booth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-163 size-1536x1536\" src=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_3076-scaled-1-1152x1536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_3076-scaled-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_3076-scaled-1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_3076-scaled-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_3076-scaled-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_3076-scaled-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/img_3076-scaled-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 \u00a0Early forms of &#8220;mobility&#8221; of a technology called the &#8220;phone booth&#8221; from the Phone Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since the modernization of technology, such as smartphones, notebook computers, tablet, the government has modernized too by having all politicians and lawmakers to have corner offices, have remote offices in their home districts,\u00a0 and get full time employee benefits, such as probably having their own expensive digital set on their desktops, licenses to use additional features they don\u2019t really need to use, and whole other things that the working stiff would wished to have on their desks! If they even have one<\/p>\n<p>I did go to the Massachusetts State House in October of 2010. After spending a few minutes looking at one of my file shares, of my thousands of pictures, I did manage to get better pictures of the phone booths, as originally posted last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These pictures are a mix from 2009 and an October 2010 visit to this landmark location. These Bell System payphones are interesting.\u00a0 These phone booths were used back when the Massachusetts Legislature used to be a volunteer form of governing.\u00a0Back&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/pay-to-call-massachusetts-state-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041],"tags":[1048,581,1049,1050],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pay-to-call","tag-1048","tag-massachusetts-state-house","tag-pay-phone","tag-telephone-booth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7327,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/7327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}