ANTENES: THE EXCHANGE The Carrack, Durham May 17­–28, free Lori Napoleon had never considered how early phone calls happened. But years ago, while visiting a lighthouse on Michigan’s Upper ...

Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job. “ Hello, Operator!,” although ...

“The PBX 555 on display was originally leased from Southern Bell Telephone Co. when the Oleander Court was built in the 1950s. With 34 units, the switchboard was perfect for the motel.

Memories of shorter phone numbers and sharing party lines are a little closer in the North Country, since many of our communities used switchboards and relied on operators much later than urban areas.

Early telephone operators brought community together Blanche O’Brien was the switchboard operator for Hines Telephone Association for 40 years. Courtesy of Lowell O'Brien ...

As the town’s operator, she placed and connected calls for people within the Cowan exchange. Bowen and her family made their home in the house where the switchboard had been located since 1902, she ...

Until the 1970s, a switchboard operators' assistance was often needed for person-to-person, collect calls or to report a crime. And at a recent reunion in Maine, some former operators shared a few ...

telephone switchboard 1 Articles Ancient History Of The Phone Jack June 5, 2020 by Al Williams 67 Comments ...

In April 1968, workers in Milwaukee put the phone company on hold — twice. It started with a wildcat strike April 3, 1968. Installers and craftsmen at Wisconsin Telephone Co. walked off the job ...

A Kellogg/Stromberg-Carlson hotel switchboard brought $1,500 last year. A $510.99 oak tabletop cabinet switchboard also sold in 2011. When describing the unit, provide as many hard facts as possible.

Danny Newman launched Switchboard last year as a solution for My Brother's Bar and is now offering it to other local restaurants around town who want to reduce unnecessary customer phone calls.