Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Bird-Adams Company, Inc.
- Summary
- This phone booth shaped like a Mercury spacecraft came from the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Bird-Adams Company of Doraville, Georgia, manufactured it in the late 1960s. Bird-Adams made novelty phone booths for children's hospitals, amusement parks, zoos, and shopping centers. Although this booth was called the "Gemini Model BA-20," it more closely resembles a Mercury spacecraft.
- The coin-operated phone inside, like the pay phone that would have been mounted in the booth originally, has separate slots for quarters, nickels, and dimes.
- Transferred from NASA Kennedy Space Center
- Telephone: Gift of Patrick Conahan
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA Kennedy Space Center
- Inventory Number
- A19960304000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Miscellaneous
- Materials
- Housing of molded fiberglass; framing of 3/4 inch marine grade plywood; interior of Formica with seat and head rest of Cycolac; aluminum tubing ladder; steel Phillips head screws.
- Dimensions
- Approximate (Overall): 134.62 x 114.3cm (4ft 5in. x 3ft 9in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19960304000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9baa85e1c-7cbe-4aa0-8561-40947510a644
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