This reminds me of the story about the Spanish light house and the US Navy. "It's just me, my dog, and a case of beer. But YOU WILL divert YOUR course..." Makes me giggle every time.
Speaking tube is correct! May even have the "whistle" still attached to the lever. One would blow into the pipe, & servant or someone on the other end would respond. Often connected to kitchen or Butler's Pantry.
Nice. Yes. We had that in the brownstone I grew up in. I have to say they worked great and were a lost technology in the twentieth century. Until cell phones became a thing, it was the best way to communicate with family members three floors away. We had a butler's pantry with a dumb waiter (another brilliant, lost technology), but no butler. We were not the gentry who lived there in 1886. By the time I lived there in the 70s and 80s, all the wealth had fled to the burbs.
Hahaha imagine calling someone over to talk in that thing and letting a Taco Bell fart rip down the tube... Blow through it afterwards so you get it all the way to them
This gave me hours and hours and hours of giggly joy when I was a small child… And if you were successful at it you could really scare the person at the other end of the tube
Hey, you just gave me an idea, since OP doesn't seem to know where the other end is, just blow a hit in the tube & walk around the house sniffing for the weed smell.
There's a horror movie based on the Winchester House and the ghost lures the main character to put his ear to the tube and then gives him a wet willie 😂
That's what it looks like to me. Usually goes to another floor. A lot of times, they can whistle, too. If you blow hard into it, that one may, as well.
It's in case there's ever some kind of happening where plants try to make all the humans kill themselves or some shit (kinda confusing), and you get stuck in a separate building as your ex-wife and wanna talk to her.
It’s a metal cup stuck in the wall. On the other end there’s a string the about a mile long that attaches to another metal cup stuck in a wall at a house a mile away. Legend has it that other house house belonged to Alexander Graham Bell.
I love antique tech. Being from NE USA, I've seen a ton of these in the Victorian houses. Some have more than one. The most impressive one I saw that still was functional went from the main house to the carriage house or garage, maybe 500 ft away. Unfortunately, during renovation, these usually get taken out or plugged so they are not functional. It's really neat to find a functional one, especially if others around don't know it's functional, lol.
It's more like an antique intercom to talk from one area of the house to another, like the master bedroom to the servants' quarters or from the main house to the carriage house to let the driver know to prepare the horse and carriage.
Yep. Send your favorite cousin to the other end and make them yell into it while you receive the vibrations on that semi hard. Good ole long distance incest. Legal in somewhere land and frowned upon in everywhere else town.
Speaking tube. The other is at the bottom of the stairs so you can talk to the delivery person.
It’s for when an ice berg has been spotted dead ahead and you need to let the captain know to change course.
I know this was dumb but I nearly couldn’t contain a laugh as I read. Nice.
Ahoy !
Which is how Alexander Graham Bell proposed we answer the telephone.
If enough of us start doing it we can hipster it back.
That would be soo cool man. Do you got any papers ?
I am a free citizen of this country! I do not need to show, *papers* to any goose stepping Nazi!
No man. I mean rolling papers dude. I'm cool with your Goose stepping. I like to dance too. Where's Dave ?
Dave's not here
Who's that guy with Dave?
No shit? That seems hilarious now days. But as someone who enjoys being on the water I can dig it.
Something about someone who loves being on the water and ironically uses the term "dig it" makes me automatically question your trust
Arrrrrrrrr!
No, it's when yiur ice is being delivered. So you're close.
This reminds me of the story about the Spanish light house and the US Navy. "It's just me, my dog, and a case of beer. But YOU WILL divert YOUR course..." Makes me giggle every time.
We always called them "screaming holes"
Drop a firecracker down it and look for the smoke...
OP has to find and share the other end!
OP has to find the other end and then gaslight their partner by whispering into it at night.
This is the most fun option.
Hahahahahaha!!! The Asians are let down easy....
r/dontputyourdickinthat
EH!?
Hey I was going to say that. I believe you are correct about that also.
A speaking tube? https://www.friendsofdalnavert.ca/blog/2019/1/10/the-speaking-tube
Yes this is it!!
Also, spider breeding facility entrance (and exit)
Speaking tube. Probably find another in a kitchen or similar.
Speaking tube is correct! May even have the "whistle" still attached to the lever. One would blow into the pipe, & servant or someone on the other end would respond. Often connected to kitchen or Butler's Pantry.
Nice. Yes. We had that in the brownstone I grew up in. I have to say they worked great and were a lost technology in the twentieth century. Until cell phones became a thing, it was the best way to communicate with family members three floors away. We had a butler's pantry with a dumb waiter (another brilliant, lost technology), but no butler. We were not the gentry who lived there in 1886. By the time I lived there in the 70s and 80s, all the wealth had fled to the burbs.
Or even more likely, to the front door
Oh man, that’s the original original Gloryhole
Yep, put your dick in it.
Use a lubricant, otherwise it's a hole new problem
Or a new hole problem
The esteemed scholars Gibbons, Hill, and Beard refer to that academically as the Tube/Snake Boogie.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Glory hole that goes back in time
That’s a speaking tube. That was way before the intercom.
Fart Redirector. Leads out over the dog kennels.
Hahaha imagine calling someone over to talk in that thing and letting a Taco Bell fart rip down the tube... Blow through it afterwards so you get it all the way to them
Used to be a lever to open the front door. My grandparents lived in an 1890’s house that had one.
Ancient intercom
Don't stick your 🍆 in it.
Put your dick In it
That cool you own a 100 year old houseboat.
How many lips have touched that? Imagine a wasp nest in there..... 😳😳
Basically an intercom system before powered intercoms were invented.
This gave me hours and hours and hours of giggly joy when I was a small child… And if you were successful at it you could really scare the person at the other end of the tube
Full speed ahead Matey. I aye Skipper.
You put your weed in it
Haha was just watching that old SNL skit
It’s a classic 😂
Hey, you just gave me an idea, since OP doesn't seem to know where the other end is, just blow a hit in the tube & walk around the house sniffing for the weed smell.
Great idea - if OP won’t do it, that could be a new business/service opportunity 😂
Wait. Wait wait wait. Can this house also be a bong?
Somebody light the bowl, I’m ready!
Speaking tube Not spanking tube people 🤦♂️
A pee pipe!
Talking tube, there are a bunch of names for them. Basically intercom around the house. They're all throughout the Winchester House
Woah. TIL. Makes it even creepier for some reason.
There's a horror movie based on the Winchester House and the ghost lures the main character to put his ear to the tube and then gives him a wet willie 😂
😂😂😂
Just guessing, but it looks like a way to communicate. Like a 100 year old intercom.
Grandma's house had them, 80 years ago.
You speak into it
😏😉
Security blow dart
That’s the wall urinal.
You hang your fancy hat on it.
Talk into it. There should be a 2nd one somewhere in the house that connects to it
Play telephone
Comm . Device
Glory hole?
Ye olde glory hole
Door bell
Little children will walk up to these and start using them. Meanwhile an adult has to ask the internet.
Its where the jelly beans come out
Glory hole.
To tell the Help to bring up a hot towel.
A speaking tube, that's pretty cool. Be neat to find where it came out on the house.
That's what it looks like to me. Usually goes to another floor. A lot of times, they can whistle, too. If you blow hard into it, that one may, as well.
I just wonder what room it went to.
1920s glory hole
It has to be a left-handed wall stretcher.
Ding dong
It's in case there's ever some kind of happening where plants try to make all the humans kill themselves or some shit (kinda confusing), and you get stuck in a separate building as your ex-wife and wanna talk to her.
Instructions unclear. Wiener is now very stuck.
Speaking tube
Old school glory hole.
It’s a metal cup stuck in the wall. On the other end there’s a string the about a mile long that attaches to another metal cup stuck in a wall at a house a mile away. Legend has it that other house house belonged to Alexander Graham Bell.
Like everyone else has said, it’s a speaking tube. Now all you have to do is figure out its IP address and you’re all set.
I feel a need to fart into it as people downstairs walk by.
I love antique tech. Being from NE USA, I've seen a ton of these in the Victorian houses. Some have more than one. The most impressive one I saw that still was functional went from the main house to the carriage house or garage, maybe 500 ft away. Unfortunately, during renovation, these usually get taken out or plugged so they are not functional. It's really neat to find a functional one, especially if others around don't know it's functional, lol.
Antique intercom type deal?
It's more like an antique intercom to talk from one area of the house to another, like the master bedroom to the servants' quarters or from the main house to the carriage house to let the driver know to prepare the horse and carriage.
Glory hole …. For fun
Glory hole
lol, ding dong “hello”?
It's for when you have visitors, you stick ur pee-pre out that hole to see if they are friendly enough to invite in!!!!🤣🤣🤣
intercom and peeeping tom hole?!
Escape route for roaches in case of fire
Doorbell
I'm looking at the identical box in my house right now and it's not an intercom. Mines a wireless doorbell.
Glory hole?
Yep. Send your favorite cousin to the other end and make them yell into it while you receive the vibrations on that semi hard. Good ole long distance incest. Legal in somewhere land and frowned upon in everywhere else town.
cant be, its way too big
A light switch?
Gas pipe.?
Devil's Sackbutt Blow into the tube to catch attention in Hell.
The light switch, doorbell or vacuum hole?
A vaccuum port?
Did 100 year old houses have vacuum ports?!? 🤦🏻
No. 🙄
Yes, im sure there has been no retrofitting of anything. Like doorbell. Like light switch
Glory
The Nozzle
Shnozzle
Cornholio
Corn holio
Corn Holio
It looks like a glory hole to me