Phone Booth on a Roof
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:01.0 | Lincoln, Illinois has many claims to fame. |
| 0:04.1 | One of them is even in its name. |
| 0:06.9 | It's the only town in the United States |
| 0:08.8 | named after Abraham Lincoln |
| 0:10.6 | before he became president. |
| 0:13.2 | Like here at our office is where he christened the town |
| 0:15.7 | with the watermelon when the town was named after him. |
| 0:18.1 | I believe they poured some juice and seeds on the ground |
| 0:21.6 | and that was that, the town was named after Abraham Lincoln. |
| 0:25.9 | Now there's a two-foot-long steel watermelon in town |
| 0:28.9 | that marks the occasion. |
| 0:30.5 | I mean, how could there not be? |
| 0:32.6 | And there's a lot of other sites too. |
| 0:34.8 | Alice wrote is the tourism director for Logan County. |
| 0:38.6 | We have the world's largest covered wagon. |
| 0:40.6 | We also have the Mill Museum, the tropics neon sign. |
| 0:44.8 | But Alice says that out of all of these, |
| 0:47.8 | there's one spot in particular that attracts |
| 0:52.4 | maybe the most questions from visitors. |
| 0:54.8 | It's not the watermelon, it's not the covered wagon. |
| 0:58.8 | It's the phone booth on top of City Hall. |
| 1:02.2 | They're usually, like, |
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