A quaint long-distance calling poster from the 1930s still hangs on the wall over the telephone directories in the lobby of the old Strater Hotel in Durango. Now that cell phone packages have replaced conventional long distance toll calls, the poster promoting the use of a phone as faster and cheaper than writing appears nostalgically humorous in this era of instant and constant connectivity. Just across the way stand several phone booths, originally designed for the convenience of the hotel’s visitors. Today, most of the phones that were once in them have been removed.