They saved the phone!

From the Advertiser: The phone on which Elmer Cravalho, as speaker of the territorial House took the play-by-play call on the U.S. House vote 50 years ago, has been kept as a part of history and has been on public display in the past.

Fifty years ago yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 323-89 to pass the Hawaii Admission Act, setting the stage for a historic affirmation by Hawai'i voters that would lead to Hawai’i becoming the nation’s 50th state. On August 21, 1959, President Eisenhower officially signed off on the dissolution of the Territory of Hawai'i that established the state of Hawaii. The phone seen in the picture is the phone used (on the Hawaiian end) when the local speaker of the territorial House took the call from Washington, DC during the vote. Don’t you love this relic? One man's junk is another man's...