Long line to use phone booths at Longworth congressional office building.
  • Goldy | The Stranger
  • Long line to use pay phones at Longworth congressional office building.

If you've ever wondered why Congress always seems so stuck in the past, it's because apparently, they live and work entirely inside a 1940's movie set. Oddly, the telephone booths weren't stuffed with curmudgeonly, fedora-topped reporters, hurriedly phoning in stories. Huh.