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We are in the process of incorporating wonderful and rare pieces of telephone history.  Please click here to view some of them.

 

 

 

See "how it used to be done" by the operators in the old days, and then come see the same switchboards, along with other great telephone equipment and items, in person for yourself.  Contact us to schedule a tour.

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Operator Toll Dialing: Dialing

Instructional film for telephone operators that describes dialing procedures.  Interestingly, area codes used to be called "routing codes."

 
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Operator Toll Dialing: Cord Signals

Instructional film for telephone operators that demonstrates various cord signals, such as busy, reorder and recall.

   
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Operator Toll Dialing: Teamwork

Instructional film for telephone operators that displays the effort of working together to use circuits efficiently and get the calls on their way.