Soon, a piece of Penn State and telecommunications history will be removed from the Hetzel Union Building and auctioned on eBay: 1950’s-vintage telephone booths.

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I noticed that the pay phones had been removed and wrote to a HUB staff member to find out what was going to happen to the booths. She wrote,

The HUB phone booths will not be destroyed. They are going to be sold via the Penn State Lion Surplus eBay process. This can be accessed by going to their web site at http://www.surplus.psu.edu We are hoping that a student and/or alumnus would find them valuable and enjoy them for years to come.

The HUB underwent extensive remodeling from 1998-2000 and these phone booths were preserved from the old union building.