The albums on this page contains photos of the museum that was lost in the September 2015 Butte forest fire.
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Click here for photos of the new JKL Museum in the Santa Cruz CA area.
10-button Touch-Tone Sets

These sets are all dated from 1964 to 1967.

1554s – So where do we find an Ivory one???

VERY rare. Call director on the right has a built in speakerphone.

From England, the Netherlands, and Australia

Duplicate and available for trade or?

Would trade one of our AE Starlites for something…

The blue and gold princess phones are factory custom painted.

The blue set on the right is an ITT, not Weco. Didn’t know ITT made a 10 button TT set until we found that one at a Gary Goff show.

This was really hard to find!

Card dialers. We have a duplicate green available for trade.
1002 Handsets
1923 Ford Model-T Telephone Truck

Simple Startup Instructions

How did you say you start this thing?

How many Phone Museum people does it take to start a Model T?

Or, we could try pushing it
1950s

Yellow – 1957 White – 1957

Blue/Yellow – 1957 Ivory – 1956

Dark Gray – 1956 Dark Beige – 1957

Dark Blue – 1955 Pink – 1958

Aqua Blue – 1960 Brown – 1955 We would like an earlier aqua blue set.

Red – 1955 Light Gray – 1957

Very odd… looks put together. But all the plastic parts, blue and yellow alike, have the same date.
AE Colored Sets 1930s and 1940s

Jade and the elusive Orchid

AE40 Maroon and Chrome – Kotke

Movable carry handle – down position in Gold

Movalbe carry handle – up position

Movable carry handle – Silver

movable carry handle with hand

Movable carry handle parts

Metal blocks with holes for movable handle. Screws go thru switchhook assembly inside and into these blocks.

Movable handle parts and screws

Movable handle. Just squeeze the sides and it pops right out. Probably too easily.

Inside switchhook assembly. Screw shown for reference. Note screw holes in bottom center of pic that go up to the metal blocks.

Stationary handle – Silver trim, cleaning finger wheel

Stationary handle – Silver trim, cleaning finger wheel

Stationary handle. Very rigid.

Clear 34 and 40, smokey 40 by Ray Kotke
A G Bell 1870s Repros
Annex
Black Phones
Candlestick Telephones
Carddialers

bottom of Rotary and Touch-Tone card dialer
Carterfone

This device was an interface between a telephone and a radio. A phone converstaion could be transmitted and received via radio.
Colored Sets from the 1930s and 1940s

See the AE album for closer pics of these beautiful AE 34s and 40s.

Ray Kotke’s outstanding work.

This is painted over metal. We need a blue 302 and would trade well for one.

Green and blue dial blanks for 302s. The green is a duplicate and available for trade.
Foreign Phones

Isn’t the lime green GPO on the right a beautiful phone?
G12 Handsets and Trimline Cords

The handset say G3. We guess this is a prototype of what would become the G12

Rotary Trimline. Note the plastic retainer tab. The later version had a metal tab.

Rotary Trimline – early cord.
Intercoms

Original designations give an old intercom a sense of history. Check these out.
In the Media
JKL Museum of Telephony

Early Gray Payphone / Coin Collector

Telephone Signs Outside the Museum

10-button Touch-Tone Telephones

1960s Concepts / Display Models
Library
Lots of Color

Airplane flight phone – “Please bring your seatbacks and traytalbles…..”

Attention Walgreen shoppers…
Lyons Blast Detector
Lyons Construction Photos

03-27-68-entrance-structure

03-27-68-ne-cable-entrance-conduits

03-27-68-north-e-wave-guide-entrance

03-29-68-api-casings-headwall

04-10-68-electrical-conduit

04-10-68-fuel-tanks-shelter

04-12-68-wetting-down-roof-backfill

04-20-67-view-of-the-job-site

05-1-67-ne-corner-showing-forms

05-5-67-ne-corner-formwork

05-9-67-concrete-in-ne-corner-walls

05-20-67-formwork-interior-wall

05-26-67-partially-formed-lower-wall

06-2-67-stockpile-decking-material

06-30-67-concrete-conveyer

06-30-67-reinforcing-steel-column

07-28-67-nw-corner-upper-level-wall

08-3-67-ne-corner_upload2

08-6-67-placing-conduit-in-area-of-ac-1

08-6-67-placing-conduit-in-area-of-ac-1_upload2

08-18-67-drain-piping-underlfoor-duct

09-8-67-ne-corner-showing-backfill

09-8-67-south-along-west-wall-backfill

09-22-67-shoring-for-roof

09-22-67-steel-at-stair-1-equip-shaft

10-4-67-view-from-nw-corner-looking-east_upload4

11-10-67-freshly-placed-concrete
Main Room
Military / AUTOVON

Autovon Call Director. We’d like to find one more of these.

Autovon Card Dialer… not ours. We want to add one of these to the collection. Do you know where we can get one?

Autovon Call Director and Autovon Princess. Both are working.

Green is ITT, beige is Western Electric. APB wont give us his pink one.

AE Autovon set on the left.

Red Autovon Payphone. We are looking for a pink one…
Mine and Ship Telephones and Fire Alarms
Museum Visitors

Ben Salem and Rod Lanthier

Kellogg Mike Neale, museum supporter and good friend!

L-R Remco Enthoven, Russ Cowell, John La Rue, Jerry Petrizze, Wayne Merit, Kellogg Mike Neale, Gary Goff

John La Rue, Paul Fassbender, Jeremy Walters

Claude Sterling visited on June 15th.

L-R Wayne Merit, Rob Baxter, Gary Goff, John La Rue

L-R Lorne Bonkowski (Tinker extrordinaire), John La Rue (Owner) , Wayne Merit (Curator)

L-R John La Rue, Cliff Sullivan, Steve Hilsz, Jeremy Walters

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013

AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
Mushroom Telephones

The ivory in the middle has a repro mushroom cap. It will get painted to match.

Very rare early 500H model. No switch on the lower left.

Green 500U and Black 500H
Outside Museum
Outside Plant
Payphones
Picturephones at the museum

Early non production picturephone. Used at Disneyland and Expos. 1960s

Production Picturephone on the right from 1970. This service didn’t last long.
Pink

500 c/d 1958, soft plastic

Trimline, rotary cord view

2565 painted. Looking for a real one.

Rotary card dialer 660, 1963. It’s the real deal. Not as good as an Autovon card dialer, but close.

Eric O’Phone from Ireland

851 – note the trimline style cord on the G12 handset

1500 1966 by Northern Electric

Bottom of pink mag. Likely worked with the NE 500 family of rural magneto dial sets

759 type speaker for a home interphone

The dial looks real… Autelco from Italy.

Concept phone used by AT&T at world fair’s and expo’s. The dial is real, the rest is a wood model.
Prototypes, Field Trial and odd stuff


10 button field trial dial

Card dialer prototype found on Ebay, lucky to have it.

bottom of card dialer prototype

set on right is original with dial, set on left is same dial on B type desk set.

Open base… note lead to add weight

Side view of original desk set

Handset with dial and transmitter

Field trial princess on the left, production princess on the right.

Working field trial rotary dial Shmoo on the right. The others are wood concept Shmoo phones.

Left: Wood concept Middle: field trial phone Right: first production model. Weco did not produce this style phone in rotary dial.

What happened? Come to the museum, we’ll tell you the story.

The field trial became the green on the right

1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset – closed position

1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset – closed position

1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset – closed position

Tokyo Artillery Works top; Taisho 4 or Taisho Era 4 (which I am told is the year 1915) bottom

Field trial Princess bottom plate

Field trial princess, inside

Wood model Shmoo phone. note the size difference from the one in the previous picture.

Kellogg Select-O-Phone demo unit

It is Bell Syst. handset, note the side connection

What was the application for this? What was it called?
Select-O-Phone by Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company

Kellogg Mike did a major cleaning job.

Working SOP salesman’s sample. This folds up into a box and is portable… heavy, but portable.

Custom dial for a SOP home intercom.

Working SOP switch. Once we figured out that it took 30v rather than 24v, the rest was easy.

Close up of the selectors. In our opinion, very difficult to maintain.
Speaker Phones

511 Home Interphone and speakers

Speakerphone prototype (we think…)
Switchboards

I dunno…. it’s going to take some research. It is quite small.

Western Electric long distance board

BandR so sez the plate at the bottom.

Transmitter back cup says Stromberg Carlson. It probably is an intercom but it looks like a switchboard.
Switch Hooks

Rawson Orator, transmitter in the ‘off hook’ position

Manhatten with a manual lever to operate the hook.

National Telephone Mfg., the hook is under the watch case rcvr

National Telephone Mfg., note the button where the rcvr goes

Viaduct with finger operated hook
Switch Room
TCI ATCA Leg Pulling

Small Emergency Prototype
Theater Lobby
Touch-a-Matic Prototype

Yellow is a production model.

Yellow is a production model.
Trimline Field Trial 1963
WE Co. Green
WE Co. 851 Field Trial
Wood Telephones

Viaduct on the left, Manhattan on the right

Illinois left, Manhattan right

Note the mother-in-law receiver on right hanging on a stationary hook.

Yes, one is a duplicate. Got something to trade for it?

Vought Berger pendelum phone

Vought Berger pendelum phone