Central Communications

This store gets the job done. You need a phone? They sell. It’s not a hang out spot, I mean, you are in the middle of an urban neighborhood. They play lively gogo music so it’s easy to locate and it’s similar to a barbershop. The neighborhood come by and talk to the owners in and around the store. If you need a phone (fast) and you’re in the area, stop by. Management is nice too.

One of my favorite daily features of Central Communications happens to be a dancing nearly-​deaf middle-​aged man and a large speaker that plays some ‘funky beats.’
I enjoy this feature because a picture of that decibel level chart pops into my head. I really like clever graphic illustrations of information. A particularly cool one is that graph that displays the losses of Napoleon’s armies on his march to Russia. You almost feel like screaming at Napoleon in French to listen to his advisers to not invade Russia.
Sometimes I like to try to make my own charts or modify other people’s charts because I lack creative abilities of my own.
30dB Whisper Quiet Library
95dB Subway Train at 200’
90−95dB Level at which sustained exposure may result in hearing loss
125dB Pneumatic riveter at 4’
YOU
125dB Pain begins
ARE
140dB Even short term exposure can cause permanent damage
HERE
140dB Jet engine at 100′, Gun Blast
SOME WHERE
180dB Death of hearing tissue
PLEASE
194dB Loudest sound possible
STOP