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1940 Actress Marie Blake AKA Grandmama Frump from the 60s The Addams Family TV Show - screen grab screengrab humor characters like from newspaper comic strips - Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald also known as Blossom Rock or Blossom MacDonald - Jeanette McDonald's sister from film - Dr. Kildare's Strange Case - playing the character of Sally Hospital Switchboard Operator
"When dial service came to Round Rock on October 27, 1951, telephone personnel Fred Fullerton, Alex Gordon, W. D. Graves, Mrs. Roy Ross and Mrs. Betsy Nehring posed for one last picture around the "number, please" switchboard that was replaced by the automatic dial equipment."
(From "Round Rock, Texas, U.S.A.!!!" page 173)
Here's my Stork.Now when I was a Switchboard Operator I worked in a Company. There were some wonderful people working there. I was leaving the company in December 1985 to have my daughters and one of the men in the Factory made this Stork for me. It was a horrible redy colour underneath, and it had a stand. But I thought the world of it (Still do) as they had taken the time and trouble to make it for me. I covered it in felt years after (you know what I'm like with remodelling!) and stuck two pictures of my babies by the beak and put their names on. This hangs in our bedroom over the bed.( Haven't got anywhere else). It reminds me of the lovely people I knew and also of my work days! (I did work once upon a time!:)
Southern Bell Telephone Switchboard about 1925
Photo by Albert Barden. From the Albert Barden Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC.
Main electrical switchboard of the 1922 Manly Ferry Baragoola.
Baragoola was built as a coal-burning steamer and subsequently converted to diesel-electric propulsion in the late 1950s. This means that her diesel engines drove DC electric generators rather than being directly connected to the propellers, and then the DC current was used to power electric motors connected to the propeller shafts via a reduction gearbox.
The drive train of Baragoola and her diesel sisters was not all that dissimilar to that of diesel rail locomotives of the same vintage.
This main switchboard is in one of her two engine room spaces. Based on what is in the photo Baragoola is almost certainly alongside at Circular Quay between trips at the time of this photo.
The time on the brass clock reads 12:25 - and departure times from the Quay were generally on the hour and half hour.
In addition, the RPM gauges for both forward and aft propellers each read zero.
Stuart McPherson photo. July 1981.
This is a rear view of a Kellogg magneto switchboard. The night alarm circuit, which runs in metal strips across the bottom of each row of drops, is intact. But other than some retro-wiring, visible in the right-lower middle area, none of them are wired up in terms of line connections to the outside world.
Formed in Cleveland moved to Akron and went back to Cleveland. Sounds to me like end 1960s garage rock. Not bad. Mixed by Crocus Benemoth aka David Thomas of Pere Ubu. Plays at 33 1-3 RPM.
Gladys dando switchboard operator - canadian collieries office at cumberland. picture of r. dunsmuir on wall. Right, large early typewriter on swivel mount. a call is in progress. gladys dando later became mrs. telford. Date: 1920. Names: Dando, Telford.
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Ed Lamey sold sand and gravel, sewer tile and drain tile along with other building materials. It was on the northwest corner of N. Cook and Main Streets. The second floor housed the first telephone switchboard in Barrington. Lageschulte and Hager Lumber Yard is visable in the background. Photo circa 1890.
Another event in 1898, a great year in our advancement, was the coming of the telephone to Barrington on a village franchise. The Chicago Telephone Company began its service here with eight subscribers. The first switchboard was in the Barrington Review office, a small frame building on North Cook Street where the Northern Light is now. In August of that same year, 1898, it was moved to the three story Commercial Hotel on East Main Street where the Strand Dress plant is now. Mr. Linus R. Lines was the proprietor, and operator of the telephone. Miles T. Lamey's Review office was phone No. 1 and Attorney Clark McIntosh was phone No. 2. Phones were on the wall and were a brown wooden case with a stationary mouth piece. To call the operator for a connection to another phone, one had to grind the bell crank on the right side of the phone box.
In 1903 when Arthur C. Schroeder of Manitowoc was local manager, the switchboard was moved into premises of their sole use in the small shack which was originally Billy Hamilton's carpenter shop at the northwest corner of East Main and Ela Streets. It was close up to the sidewalks in the yard where the Cities Service Gas Station is now. Mr. George Wilburn, now retired from managerial service, was operator there. That building was moved in 1940 to 108 Grant Street.
As the growing service demanded more room, they moved to their brick building across Ela Street to the northeast corner of the same intersection. That building soon had to be enlarged for rnore switchboards.
In 1923 the Chicago Telephone Company became the Illinois Bell Telephone Co.
In 1940 the Barrington switchboard had 1550 phones, an increase of one hundred in two years. In 1953 we had 3712 phones here. In that building they had switchboard positions for thirty-eight operators, and at the height of their service from that building they had one hundred fifteen operators listed at one time.
Their business office was established at 213 Park Avenue in August, 1946, when more space away from the exchange building was necessary. Then it was moved to 113 East Main Street.
In 1956 Manager Robert L. Pearson announced that Barrington was to have a large building erected at 430 East Main Street to house a new system of dial telephoning and automatic connections much faster than waiting for operators; that Barrington's exchange would be DUnkirk, calling DU 1- plus four more figures. Ground was broken by the officials in January of 1957. A brick building set on deep caissons was completed and the change-over was made on Sunday, April 20, 1958. An open house followed, which revealed to the layman the marvels of telephony. The Pacific coast was called and answered in a matter of seconds without any operator. Still there were twenty-four positions on the switchboard for some calls. On Tuesday, February 19, 1959, for instance, five thousand toll calls went through the Barrington office. The building is so constructed that there is still opportunity for greater expansion.
By April, 1960, all of the eight party lines in the village had been Converted to one and two party lines. By July of that same year all four party lines in the village were changed over.
An admirable record at the switchboard was that of Miss Frances Bauman, who retired after 32 years of service, 28 years of that time in the Barrington exchange and 18 years as chief operator.
-Arnett C. Lines
hmm 3, Operator ? , it's nice to know there may be a human at the other end.
How do we call if we have no puff ?
erm. I tell them to send fire, make smoke.
We got no fire , means no smoke, no puff.
erm.....I walk.