This album shows photos of our museum in the Santa Cruz area.
We started building this museum in September of 2016 and the photos show the progress we have been making.
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Click here for photos of the JKL Museum that used to be in Mountain Ranch CA.
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The entry hall.
Working Picturephone Model II.
Giant 6' working Trimline telephone.
Porcelain signs over the entry door to the museum.
View of the main room.
Display with reproductions of early Alexander Graham Bell's prototype telephones ad other early examples.
Very rare "Lady Lamp" with Western Electric B1 handset mounting telephone in bronze finish.
Calldirector display on the left and other business phone types on the right..
Collection of porcelain public telephone signs.
Collection of porcelain public telephone signs.
Payphone wall 1.
Payphone wall 2.
Switchroom; Stromberg-Carlson XY on the left and Western Electric Step-by-Step on the right.
View of the main room.
The green section.
Telegraph display.
Character and Novelty phone display.
Payphone wall 2.
Payphone wall 1.
Prototype, field trail and display model display.
Automatic dialer display.
6-button keyset telephone display.
Calldirector display.
Telegraph display.
Western Electric Princess telephone display.
Western Electric type 500 telephone display.
Display of AUTOVON telephones.
The green section.
Early wood wall telephones.
Display case with several US and foreign telephones.
Wood wall telephones and switchboards.
View of the main room.
Wood wall telephones and switchboards.
Early wood wall telephones.
Display of AUTOVON telephones.
Wood wall telephones and switchboards.
The entry hall with an antique oak double wall telephone booth.
The entry hall with an antique oak double wall telephone booth.
Early wood wall telephones.
View of the main room.
Western Electric type 500 telephone display.
Switchroom; Stromberg-Carlson XY on the left and Western Electric Step-by-Step on the right.
Western Electric Panel phone and 6 and 10-button keyset telephone display.
Western Electric Panel phone display.
Western Electric 6 and 10-button keyset telephone display.
Western Electric Trimline telephone display.
Western Electric Princess telephone display.
International telephone display.
Telegraph display.
Switchroom; Stromberg-Carlson XY on the left and Western Electric Step-by-Step on the right.
Switchroom detail.
Switchroom; "Jane" our Audichron Speaking Clock.
Early wood wall telephones.
The green section.
The first wall phones mounted on the wall.
The library.
The library.
The museum's main room with the display cases under construction.
The museum's main room with the display cases under construction.
The museum's main room with the display cases under construction.
First display case mockup.
Museum entry with oak double wall phone booth and lots of phones ready to get displayed.
Museum entry with lots of phones ready to get displayed.
Jane, the Audichron speaking clock after she arrived at our museum. Jane has been now been rack mounted in our switchroom.
Phones on wire racks ready to get displayed.
JKL Challenge Coin