“It’s extremely popular,” said Carrabelle Mayor Brenda La Paz, according to the wjhg.com. “The people love to come and take pictures and pose [with it]. It’s a novelty.”

“That phone was on a little platform bolted there, and the officers had to answer and take calls and give calls in the rain,” said La Paz.

“And through that time, it had an actual rotary-style dial phone and to stop people from making long-distance calls, they removed the rotary dial,” said La Paz.

"Back when the town of Carrabelle (current pop. about 1200) had no true police station, the police parked their cruiser beside a telephone booth near the main intersection, where they could pretty much see everything going on. For many years, calls for the police came in to the telephone in the booth," the Roadside America reports.

"Better radios and cell phone service put an end to the need for the phone booth, but one of the more recent of the telephone booths used is still in the center of town, across from the Chamber of Commerce. The original phone booth is on display at City Hall just a couple short blocks away."

"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." the official website reports.

"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” Messer, moved the phone booth to its current site on U.S. 98 under the chinaberry tree. The Chief hired a man to do the lettering to mark it as the City of Carrabelle Police Station. It worked well and increased the efficiency of the two man police force. They could park the patrol car in the shade, do required paperwork, listen for the phone while watching for speeders and other suspicious characters. The booth did protect the officers from the elements, but some people still snuck into it to make long distance calls.

"Eventually the dial was removed from the phone, making it impossible for folks to call out. It continued to serve the police of Carrabelle for decades.

"Sarah Purcell, the host of the television shows “Real People,” was visiting her father and discovered it. She had to feature it on the show in 1991 where they dubbed it as the “World’s Smallest Police Station.” Later that year Johnny Carson had a lively interview with then Carrabelle Police Chief Jessie Gordon Smith on the “Tonight Show.” It has been featured on other television shows, " That’s Amazing,” "Ripley's Believe It or Not", "The Today Show” and in the movie "Tate's Hell", the official website reports.

"Built in 1963, it was originally a police phone box before apparently performing so well that it was promoted to a full “station.” The tiny office has earned a fair amount of fame for its oddity, appearing on several television shows including “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”

"But of course, that amount of fame comes with extra attention from the locals – and not all of it positive. The location has been vandalized several times throughout the years, from benign pranks such as the phone being regularly removed to more serious issues like gunfire directed at the booth," the Atlas Obscura reports. 

"In fact, the booth has met with such misfortune that it’s been replaced entirely more than once. But the original has been preserved by the local Chamber Office, where it sits on display. The new booth is more of a museum than a functioning office, if you can believe it, and it displays a thorough exhibit of its history."

"Located on 98 at one of the bigger interchanges. It’s funny and worth taking to picture with it. Stop by it."

"Map pin in the wrong place, try 102 Ave A N, Carrabelle, FL 32322 in Google Maps. Cute little spot for photos in an old phone booth!"

"If you blink, you will miss it. Small, smaller, smallest. A wonderful story behind the why. It is located on the main street through town, park and walk to it."

"Stop for a fun photo and something to talk about when you get back home. It’s not entirely a gimmick. There is authentic history and purpose here."

"A little hokey but still a part of history with all the info at the site. Worth a look and costs nothing. Beside the post office."

" Its outside and always open. It has some information in there for you to read and review when you check it out. We're happy that we stopped here. You should stop here too."