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The saying probably comes from a telephone switchboard analogy. When telephone operators had to manually connect two parties with wires. If they put the wires into the wrong plugs, people would think they were talking one person but actually be talking to another. This would cause misunderstandings, as they would be talking about different things. Hence, their wires were crossed.
Eaton Hall is an academic building on the campus of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1909, the four-story brick and stone hall is the fourth oldest building on the campus of the school after Waller Hall (1867), Gatke Hall (1903), and the Art Building (1907). Eaton is a mix of architectural styles and houses the humanities departments of the liberal arts college.
History
Eaton Hall was built from 1907 to 1908. The primarily Late Gothic Revival style building was dedicated on September 21, 1909, and named in honor of Abel E. Eaton. Eaton donated $50,000 for the construction of the hall. He owned the Union Woolen Mills in Eastern Oregon.
Originally constructed with round spires on the turrets, these were later removed. Eaton Hall was home to Willamette’s law school from 1923 until 1938. During the 1960s the structure housed the school’s office of the president, the registrar, the school’s telephone switchboard, and business offices.
Willamette's administrative offices were located in Eaton from its opening until 1980. In 1980, renovations began to convert administrative offices into classrooms and faculty offices and other modern improvements. In 1983, the building's interior was remodeled, and the following year Eaton was added to Salem's Historic Properties List. In the spring of 2004, a $1.4 million renovation of the building’s fourth floor was completed. The former attic space was converted into offices and classrooms for the rhetoric and anthropology departments.
Details
Four stories tall, the hall is constructed of stone and bricks with a composite shingle roof. Architectural details contain elements of Victorian, Gothic Revival, and Beaux-Arts styles. Gothic elements include a pointed arches on the entrances, embedded towers or turrets, a foundation of rusticated stone, and decorative stone lintels.
Located on the north end of campus, it is adjacent to Waller Hall to the west and Smullin Hall to the east. To the south is an open field which previously served as the school's football field. The building currently houses Willamette’s humanities programs. This includes the Anthropology, Religion, English, History, Classics, and Philosophy departments.
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桜と落書だらけの配電盤の組み合わせも渋谷らしくていいんじゃないかな。
I think the combination of cherry blossoms and graffiti-covered switchboards is also typical of Shibuya.
Built in Art Deco style in 1914, closed 2007 - control room of the transformer and switchgear building.
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplicaton of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.
--"Dolor" by Theodore Roethke
Built in 1899, Woodard Hall has been many things to many generations in Springfield, TN over the years. It was a grocery store and later Woodard Hardware. It also housed the telephone operators switchboard upstairs in the early 1900’s before being moved to another location on the square. There was even a blacksmith’s shop in the basement and an alley out back that housed a small, but popular, bar. More recently it housed Springfield Gas department which also sold gas appliances from the main floor. It was built by Robertson County native, John Woodard, a local business owner, a state senator, a Robertson County judge, the first president of the Springfield National Bank, owner of the Springfield Hotel and eventually the builder of the Woodard Building – now known as “Woodard Hall”. While this specific building is not on the National Register of Historic Places, it is listed as contributing to the character of the Springfield Town Square Historic District that was listed on the NRHP on August 1, 1979.
Image was taken during my trek to photograph all 95 county courthouses across my home state of Tennessee...now revisiting in order that the courthouses were photographed!
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Steinmüller Cyklon Boiler (1956) in an abandoned coal fired power plant for a former paper mill - Germany
Old switchboard to connect generators to the grid. Found these in the energy section of an abandoned steel mill, Charleroi, Belgium
Explored - Highest position: #327 on Tuesday, May 1, 2018.
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A phone connector, also known as phone jack, audio jack, headphone jack or jack plug, is a family of electrical connectors typically used for analog audio signals.
The phone connector was invented for use in telephone switchboards in the 19th century and is still widely used.
The phone connector is cylindrical in shape, with a grooved tip to retain it. In its original audio configuration, it typically has two, three, four and, occasionally, five contacts. Three-contact versions are known as TRS connectors, where T stands for "tip", R stands for "ring" and S stands for "sleeve". Ring contacts are typically the same diameter as the sleeve, the long shank. Similarly, two-, four- and five- contact versions are called TS, TRRS and TRRRS connectors respectively. The outside diameter of the "sleeve" conductor is 1⁄4 inch (6.35 millimetres). The "mini" connector has a diameter of 3.5 mm (0.14 in) and the "sub-mini" connector has a diameter of 2.5 mm (0.098 in).
Photographed on a Four Thirds Day wander with NJ. Space Lab, East Pender Street, Chinatown, Vancouver. April 3, 2017.
"Dolor" by Theodore Roethke
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplication of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.
The Hotel John Marshall, located on Fifth Street between Franklin and Grace in downtown Richmond, Virginia, opened on October 30, 1929, the day after the Wall Street Crash. When the hotel opened, it advertised itself as "The Finest Hotel in the South": from radio outlets every room, a private switchboard manned by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., to the rooftop garden ballroom, it was considered both modern and luxurious
In 2011, after renovations ,the building reopened as The Residences at The John Marshall, 238 downtown luxury apartments.
Swithboard Operator - Give Me Number 9
Lighting: Mix of windlight & LUMIPro Lighting Systems
Location: Private
Switchboard made by Maddison Wexhome
Pen & Pencil RC Cluster
1940's Dress & Hair: Meli Imako
Retro Fan: Lisp
Headphones: Underground
Mic/Cone: misc sculpty
Wires: T-3D Creations (Crooked Wire),
YEN Pro Connectors-Jack Plugs.
DRD Scooge Gacha
Vintage PBX Telephone Center pretty old. probably from a hotel or office with multiple extensions, actually pretty easy to learn to use them, found in North Carolina.
Switchboard in the basement telephone exchange of the abandoned Brogyntyn Hall, Shropshire.
View the full set here - www.bcd-urbex.com/brogyntyn-abandoned-hall-shropshire-uk/
Built in 1930, this Art Deco-style building was designed by Schenck and Williams for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company to serve as their offices and main switchboard in Downtown Dayton. The building features a granite base, a limestone exterior, a massing that tapers with setbacks towards the top, stone and metal spandrel panels, one-over-one windows, a main entrance with a decorative peacock-like screen, recessed behind an archway, and flanked by decorative sconces, decorative sculptural reliefs, an interior lobby with decorative light fixtures, a decorative ceiling, aluminum doors, marble walls, and decorative elevator doors, and decorative terra cotta panels and Art Deco screens surrounding the main entrance door. The building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Dayton Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. The building today is owned by AT&T.
This is a B&W HDR photo of a control panel switchboard used in a fire station during the 1930's. It's one of the displays in the Yarmouth Firefighters Museum.
What a sight and sound this must have been!
Brand new class 37's D6915 (37215) & D6918 (37218) start their delivery run to Doncaster via the Chat Moss route.
First allocation was Landore in South Wales and between them they clocked up 22 million miles in service.
Astonishingly both have survived and one into preservation. 37215 at the Gloucester & Warwicks and 37218 still in service with DRS
* Photograph by my friend and former work colleague Eddie Bellass who at the time maintained the switchboard at the works for the then GPO.
I like this iPhone photo better then the one I took of this on my DSLR. Captured during one of our interior access workshops in Bodie in 2014.
Continuing our adventure with a visit to Bisbee Arizona.
This is the old telephone switchboard at the Copper Queen Hotel. For those too young to remember, that is what a rotary dial looked like. An operator had to connect the cables to complete the call.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Queen_Hotel
The Copper Queen Hotel is a historic hotel located in Bisbee, Arizona. I think that if I visit Bisbee again, I will stay here.
Holding the distinction of being Arizona's longest continuously operated hotel, the Copper Queen was constructed from 1898 to 1902 by the Phelps Dodge Corporation to serve as lodging for investors and dignitaries visiting its nearby copper mine.[1][2]
www.atlasobscura.com/places/copper-queen-hotel-arizona
Historic Bisbee, Arizona is bustling, with a renewed emphasis on art, wellness, and tourism, but in many ways, it remains a living ghost town of its heyday. At the turn of the century, Bisbee was organized around the copper industry, with stories of massive wealth and exploitation. If you are looking for a place to stay and reckon with the ghosts of the past, there’s no better option than the putatively haunted Copper Queen Hotel.
This Victorian-era hotel is the oldest continuously run hotel in Arizona (in fact, the hotel predates its statehood). Completed in 1902, it was built by the Phelps Dodge Mining Company, owners of the eponymous Copper Queen mine, to be the height of modern luxury, as the company entertained visiting VIPs and dignitaries. The opulent hotel featured an Italianate tile floor, a Tiffany glass ceiling, and a front desk made from Tiger Oak. All the while, Phelps Dodge was systematically underpaying (or not paying) their workers, demanding more hours in dangerous conditions, resulting in a 1917 miners’ strike that led to the arrest and deportation of more than 1300 workers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee,_Arizona
Bisbee is a city[5] in and the county seat of Cochise County[6] in southeastern Arizona, United States. It is 92 miles (148 km) southeast of Tucson and 11 miles (18 km) north of the Mexican border.
Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine.
Today, the historic city of Bisbee is known as "Old Bisbee" and is home to a thriving downtown cultural scene. This area is noted for its architecture, including Victorian-style houses and an elegant Art Deco county courthouse. Because its plan was laid out to a pedestrian scale before the automobile, Old Bisbee is compact and walkable. The town's hilly terrain is exemplified by the old four-story high school; each floor has a ground-level entrance.
Natural vegetation around Bisbee has a semi-desert appearance with shrubby acacia, oak and the like, along with cacti, grass, ocotillo and yucca. The town itself is much more luxuriant with large trees such as native cypress, sycamore and cottonwood plus the introduced ailanthus and Old World cypresses, cedars and pines. Palms are capable of growing tall, but are not reliably hardy. At least one mature blue spruce may be seen.
Haiku thoughts:
Bisbee's walls whisper—
echoes in brick and copper,
time sleeps in sun-warmth.
Kartchner 2025
Southern Arizona Adventure 2025
Deux clichés :
1/ Maquette du "TITANIC"
Cité de la Mer - Cherbourg
2/ Tableau de manoeuvre de machine arrière d'un escorteur d'escadre T 47
L'escorteur d'escadre "Vauquelin" était équipé d'un système de propulsion utilisant la vapeur. Il comprenait six chaudières, quatre turbines à vapeur et deux systèmes d'entraînement appelés "lignes d'arbres" mettant en mouvement les hélices. Avec ses voyants et compteurs, le tableau de manoeuvre permettait de surveiller l'un des deux systèmes, encore appelé la "machine arrière" . De tels tableaux de manoeuvre ont été rendus obolètes par l'informatisation.
Musée National de la Marine - Brest
Two shots :
1/ Model of the "TITANIC"
City of the Sea - Cherbourg
2/ Rear engine maneuver panel of a T 47 squadron escort
The "Vauquelin" squadron escort was equipped with a propulsion system using steam. It consisted of six boilers, four steam turbines and two drive systems called "tree lines" setting the propellers in motion. With its indicator lights and counters, the maneuvering panel made it possible to monitor one of the two systems, also called the "rear engine". Such switchboards have been made obsolete by computerization.
National Maritime Museum - Brest
- having fun in "Hotel Europa" in Ferrara, as "telephone switchboard operator girl" ... als "Fräulein vom Amt" ... 📞😊☎️
- image is directly out of the Fujifilm X-T2 - without any modifications
Epcot's Spaceship Earth.
"By the early 1900's, telephones were becoming commonplace. For the first time, people could talk with their loved ones, even when physically far apart".
land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2010/01/spaceship_earth...