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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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\^ A line ga>ig^ ivith mascot, sits for its photograph on a peaceful Sunday afternoon forty-twoyears ago. It will be noted that quite a few derbies were being worn then in Pimlico, Md. 1952 Old LD Lines Are Finally Retiring 109 or the practice of oneforeman who secured anumber of propertyrights along the NewYorlc-Chicago line fora quarter each. As telephony tookon a more solid foot-ing, real live account-ants were hired to takeup some of the work.This had its compensa-tions, as one foremanof a construction gangfound when he com-plained to his super-visor that it was im-possible to get his ac-counts straight becausethere was always a mis-take in addition. He was told to reached the place with the idea thatstick to his last and not worry about they would find some imposing civicsuch details. If he chose, he could center. Confronted with such asend the accounts in a basket to those homey scene, they inevitably inquired,
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The exterior of the test station at Newtown Square^ Pa.,outside of Philadelphia, seen in igoi—in the heyday of the cross-arm accounting boys at the office and theywould take care of the rest. The Old Stations Many of the reminiscences aboutthe old days and the old lines centerabout certain test and operating of-fices which played typical or lead-ing parts in telephone development.Their missions fulfilled, many havesince been discarded. Such was the office at NewtownSquare, Pa., on two of the routesunder consideration here. Origi-nally a frame house which was thehome as well as office of a sectionlineman, it later became a neat redbrick building. Partly because of thename of the town, and partly becauseof the many important lines knownto converge there, most visitors Where is the square? However, that homey touch under-lay the formation of a celebratedvolunteer fire company, enthusiasti-cally supported by the telephonecrowd and a fierce competitor forhonors in the trials held among t

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