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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Phone Booth on a Roof

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The City Hall in Lincoln, Illinois has an unusual architectural appendage with a curious history. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/phone-booth-on-a-roof

Transcript

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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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