Eventually to become affectionately known as “Old Betsy,” a Western Electric TBX-556A telephone switchboard went into service in 1958 in West Milford Town Hall to facilitate communication in the ...

Before cellphones, before dial-up, if you wanted to make a phone call, you talked to an operator. That operator sat in front of a wall covered in... Jun 19, 2017 — Before cellphones, before dial-up, ...

PANAMA CITY — One ringy-dingy. No, the famous character Ernestine is not on display at the History Museum of Bay County, but a telephone switchboard similar to the one she used on the TV series "Laugh ...

Q: We inherited an old telephone switchboard. We can't find any serial numbers and have no idea how to go about selling it. Maybe Craigslist? Any ideas? A: The query arrived with images of a ...

The Museum of Sonoma County has a telephone switchboard that is 6 feet high and 4 feet long on display. There is no need to explain how technology has affected communication. The immediacy of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As Denver’s oldest operating bar, My Brother’s Bar never had an automated phone system, online ordering or reservations before the pandemic. Like the age of ...

Before smartphones, most people kept in touch using landline telephones. And before direct dialing was common, some calls were handled by switchboard operators. During the 1950s, more than 220,000 ...

HINES, Minn. — The earliest telephone systems connected people, eased some of the loneliness and isolation of homesteaders who lived far from other family members, provided alarms in times of ...

While watching a video about old radios from the 1920s, a phone jack popped up. The host mentioned that phone jacks are super old and he wondered what was their origin. I always assumed they had ...