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“The World’s Smallest Police Station”
CARRABELLE, FL — If you’ve got trouble in Carrabelle, Florida, just dial 3691. That’s the number for a blue phone booth on the main drag that is the world’s smallest police station. The phone booth is shaded by a shiny berry tree, and there’s a park bench in front where policemen can keep an eye on the town of Carrabelle (population 1,800).
The phone booth was installed in 1963 to keep policemen out of the rain. “They used to have a phone on the wall across the street,” said Police Chief Jesse Smith, during an interview in the early 1990s. “But every time it rained, the man who answered it would get wet.”
At the time, the single police officer walked a beat and didn’t have a patrol car, Smith said. The department has grown to three officers since then, but little else has changed.
“I love it here,” said Smith, who had worked for the station for 22 years. “It’s just like any other place. You have the same things, you just don’t have as much. Some days you’ll come and you won̵
In 1947, Albin Westberg became Police Chief and the only day policeman in Carrabelle. He and his night officers had to protect the citizens, answer calls, pump water for the tugboats at the City Dock, catch speeders on US 98 (old 319) and tend to all prisoners in the jail at City Hall. They needed help. In 1953 the phone company installed a phone in call box bolted to the wall of the building on the northeast corner of Tallahassee Street and the Highway. The officers could answer the calls while out walking the beat. Then they began to have problems with folks making unauthorized long distance calls on the police phone. The vandals loved to mess it up, too.
Johnnie Mirabella, St. Joe Telephone and Telegraph's lone Carrabelle employee at the time, first tried moving the call box to another building, but the illegal calls continued. He also noticed the policeman would get drenched while answering phone calls in the rain. So when his company decided to replace a worn out phone booth with a new one, he decided to solve both problems at once by putting the police phone in the old booth.
On March 10, 1963, Mirabella and Westberg, with the help of Deputy Sherriff Wilburn “Curly” Mess
World’s Smallest Police Station
Imagine an old wooden desk, small file cabinet, a black rotary phone and a small wood stove to keep warm on those cold wintery nights in this historic building. But before the “World’s Smallest Police Station” became a police station in 1940, it was the town well. The area behind the police station is known as the cotton yard. It’s called this because it was used as a staging area for cotton farmers bringing their cotton into town to be loaded on the train for shipment. Before farmers would leave town, they would pull their wagons up to the well to water their mules and oxen. Some residents can remember when cotton farmers were lined up from the cotton gin, located in the building behind Ruff Hardware, south on Palmer Street over the railroad bridge.
In 1940, as part of the old WPA project, the well was covered up and the “World’s Smallest Police Station” was born and served several officers until 1990 when the current police station opened up. The “new” station was formerly the Town’s garage and housed a tractor and equipment for Ridgeway’s Water and Sewer Department. Befor
World’s Smallest Police Station: world log in Carrabelle, Florida
Carrabelle, Florida, Together States--Originally a police phone box before apparently performing so adequately that it was promoted to a full “station,” the tiny office has earned a equitable amount of fame for its oddity; one of the more recent of the telephone booths used is still in the center of town, across from the Chamber of Commerce; it sets the world record for being theWorld's Smallest Police Station, according to the WORLD Log ACADEMY.
"In the 1960s, Carrabelle police had two problem: tourists were making unauthorized long distance device calls on its outdoor police call box and officers would get soaked answering phone calls in the rain," theSilly Americareports.
"To solve the problem they moved their operations into an former phone booth. “The World’s Smallest Police Station” still stands today (or, at least, a version of it: you can spot the original at the local Chamber Office)."
“It’s extremely popular,” said CarrabelleMayor Brenda La Paz, according to thewjhg.com. “The people romance to come and take pictures and pose [with i
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- Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
- Charing Cross or Embankment
NELSON'S VICTORY AT TRAFALGAR
By Richard Jones
Trafalgar Square opened to the public in 1844, and was laid out in remembrance of Admiral Horatio Nelson's great victory over the French fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Unfortunately, the rejoicing that followed the news of his momentous victory was somewhat muted, since Nelson himself was killed at the battle, shot in the back by a French sniper as the fact that he had been victorious became clear.
From that point on it was decreed that England would expect every citizen to have the right of free speech; and where better to demonstrate that right than in the square that remembered the Naval victory that had gone so far to ensuring that right?
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Thus, Trafalgar Square became the favoured location to which all freeborn Englishmen (and women) would gravitate to should they wish to protest against the status quo (and I'm not talking about Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi), and, in consequence, the lower orders began congregating here in ever increasing numbers throughout the second hal