Oddity

This story of Tucson would definitely be classified as random, since how many people stumble upon old red London phone booths in the middle of the southwest? But that's exactly what the current Tucson Oddity article is about. The Casa del Arroyo apartment complex on Norris Ave and 7th St is home to 2 cast-iron, red painted phone booth shipped over from London in 1990 by Craig Coretz, the brother of the complexes owner, Michael Coretz. The booths weight 1,700 lbs each and were appraised in 1990 for around $2,000. The booths are for sale and do get occasional interest but give their shear size there have to be any takers.

To see this cool part of British history, visit the complex and see one booth in the alley and the other standing by the street. For a brief article on the booths and their owner, check out the Tucson Oddity article in the Arizona Daily Star.