In 1947, Albin Westberg became police chief and the only day policeman in Carrabelle, where he and his night officers protected citizens, answered calls, pumped water for tugboats at the City Dock, caught speeders on U.S. 98, and tended prisoners at the jail in City Hall. In 1953, the phone company installed a phone in a call box on the northeast corner of Tallahassee Street and the highway so officers walking the beat could answer calls, but unauthorized long distance calls and vandalism became a problem. Johnnie Mirabella, St. Joe Telephone and Telegraph's lone Carrabelle employee, first moved the call box to another building, but the illegal calls continued, and he also saw that policemen were getting drenched while answering calls in the rain. When his company replaced a worn out phone booth, he put the police phone in the old booth, and on March 10, 1963, with the help of Deputy Sheriff Wilburn "Curley" Messer, moved it to its current site on U.S. 98 under the chinaberry tree. Lettered as the City of Carrabelle Police Station, it improved the efficiency of the two-man police force by giving officers shade, a place to do paperwork, and a way to listen for calls while watching for speeders and suspicious characters. Although people still slipped in to make long distance calls until the dial was removed, it served Carrabelle police for decades. In 1991, Sarah Purcell featured it on the television show "Real People," where it was dubbed the "World's Smallest Police Station," and later that year Johnny Carson interviewed Carrabelle Police Chief Jessie Gordon Smith on the "Tonight Show"; it was also featured on "That's Amazing," "Ripley's Believe It or Not," "The Today Show," and in the movie "Tate's Hell".