Found an ad on ebay for a directory of Lake Tahoe - July 1951. I put the pics in the file area under the party line letters folder. It was interesting that...
I'm glad it helped! We recently had another author, Larry Karp, who used the project while researching his book "The King of Ragtime". He was even kind...
... Last month, I was in the Library of Congress researching exchange names in old directories. I was mainly concerned with the period after 1930, when the...
Hi! I think there was a problem with the group last month. I tried to post the following response twice. Maybe a third time will work! Yes, as Mark noted,...
In manual offices, Operators on the "A" board handled outgoing calls. The "B" board connected incoming traffic. In some offices there was device on the...
Fair Lawn, New Jersey in Bergen County hyphenates building addresses. I'm told it was done to identify cross streets for police and fire emergencies. I...
I recall seeing nixie tubes back in the mid-1960s when I was studying electronics at a technical high school. A nixie tube was a vacuum tube that had 11 pins...
"Telephony Online" has an item dated yesterday, Tuesday 03-Feb-2009, that VeriZon landline (old Bell Atlantic/NYNEX except for NET&T ME/NH/VT which has been...
Mark, Thanks for jogging my memory. I recall Commerce numbers from my younger days here in Oregon. I recall seeing Enterprise and Zenith numbers when I went...
... Growing up in the 1960s/70s, I only remember seeing Zenith, Enterprise, and WX numbers listed in telephone directories. I used to like to go to the...
"Nixie" (a Burroughs Corp trademark) tubes are multi-element neon discharge devices with 10 electrodes shaped according to the 10 numerals. This technology...
... Some other means. The Call Indicator consisted of a set of 10 lamps per digit behind a glass plate. A set of legends 0-9 was painted on the back of the...
sorry, "....one lamp behind each numeral...." =SK= Previous: ... Some other means. The Call Indicator consisted of a set of 10 lamps per digit behind a glass...
In western Brooklyn, where the streets have no " East ", "West", etc. designation, the house number is often hypenated from the number of the street, e.g....
... Nixie tubes found use in all manner of devices where numerical readouts were needed, such as some early electronic calculators, digital bench voltmeters...
... My parents had a Grundig TV in the early 70s that had the channel indicators using these types of indicators. From my understanding they were sort of the...
Hello everyone,  anyone know these? City and state? Thanks, Mike   EXchange                   OLinville 2-             ...
Of course exchange names were duplicated, but by the late 50s, the last three existed in New York : OLinville 2- in the East Bronx, ESplanade 2- in the...
And as has been discussed recently on another list, New York Telephone Company used the name EXchange for their official PBXs. AT&T HQ at 195 Broadway was...
AFAICR it had a series of push buttons to select the channel (perhaps four or five.) In any case didn't have a barrel tuner though I can recall seeing that...
NTSC is 30 frames/sec., while PAL and SEACM are only 25. I used to work in a facility that had 25Hz power, and I definitely noticed the flicker on any...
I've seen early pushbutton tuners in which each button connected a set of L-C components into the active part of the tuner circuit using metallic contact...
You weren't kidding, Steph, it was like calling up the 1970s... especially the woman's voice referring the caller to dial the same non-working number ! Jeremey...
Yes, a present day artifact, so emblematic of the final sclerotic days of the now-no-longer-AT&T, including the ultimate nonsequitur of an announcement that...
Yep, I too noticed the flicker on PAL sets when I lived in the UK. Amazing what a difference a few hertz makes :) However the color always seemed truer on...
To ALL, is there more than one OLinville exchange or 2 or more in different cities and states? The original WE Dial Card here is OLinville, but the 2 was...
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