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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 ...
North Electric. Beginning as a telephone and switchboard repair company, this brand was around from the 1880s to the 1970s.
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.
Rosalie Walls, 79, was just a junior in high school in 1951 when she began her telephone switchboard training. The six-week course included proper pronunciation of numbers.
Arts Vintage Telephone Museum Completely Destroyed by California Wildfire Founder and owner John K La Rue sought out hundreds of rare and historic telephones dating from the 1880s to the present.
An upcoming auction from Bruneau & Co. is transporting bidders back to that time with nearly 100 pieces of vintage telephone memorabilia.
Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard with positions for three operators, unknown maker, British, 1925-1960. In use at Enfield Telephone Exchange 22 July 1925 to 5 October 1960 ...
Telephone operators work at the switchboard in the Pacific Telephone Chinatown branch, 1941. Peter Stackpole—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Telephone operators work side by side, 1941.