The World's Smallest Police Station
I've seen a lot of strange sights during my travels and the phone booth/police station that I visited on my recent trip to St. George Island, Florida, counts as one of them. Clearly, the little town of Carrabelle right outside of St. George, which consists of a few streets and this police station, does not experience much crime. Before the phone booth, the police phone was a simple call box bolted to a building. That call box served as the police headquarters until they were plagued by tourists making unauthorized long distance calls.
So in 1963, they erected a phone booth under a chinaberry tree. This booth and bench currently provides the local police with all they need to regulate crime. I am not making this up. The phone booth has been featured in Ripley's Believe It Or Not and the Today Show. I squeezed into the booth and it is a tight fit. I don't think Carabelle police eat many doughnuts or other stereotypically fatty foods popular with the police. Stay tuned for other fascinating sights from my St. George trip.
Comments
- Maria Alexandra
I don't think they hang out. I think they go about there daily lives until they are called once in a blue moon. Either that or they hang on the bench but I saw no sign of them while I was there. Thanks for dropping by.
Yes it is, I've never seen anything like it!
You really go there to get the story. Many thanks for this post. I would have never thought that you could have a police station on a bench with a phone booth next to it. Lovely. This is our world and it's made up of so many strange but funny things.
Greetings from London.
Catherine, you know, you may be right. THis could totally be camouflage for Dr. Who type intrigue.