"This built in wooden shelf/storage thing in our new house."
A: "Fold down is for a seat. As this would have been the only phone, and was likely in the hallway, a chair would have been in the way. Would have been two shelves in the slot that stuck out beyond the face. Phone book in between, phone on top shelf. The hole just above the top shelf on left side is where the cord would have come through the wall."
I remember using and dropping a light bulb from one of these in the late 90s in a department store thank goodness the department store was closed. It was about a 25 to 30 foot drop, the noise of the bulb crashing to the marble floor was deafening throughout the closed store at the time.
#3 lift for dirty laundry to basement; for food from kitchen
#15 blanks for powdered drugs - capsules empties