Number PULEAZE! Part Five:

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Part One:

http://www.automaticwasher.org/c...

 

Part Two:

http://www.automaticwasher.org/c...

 

<strong>Part Three:</strong>

<strong><strong>https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?79508</strong></strong>

 

<strong><strong><strong><strong>Part Four:</strong></strong></strong></strong>

<strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?81652</strong></strong></strong></strong></strong>

 

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Western Electric 1980

 

 

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American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1933

 

 

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Western Electric 1956

 

 

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Bell Telephone System 1960

 

 

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Bell System 1958

 

 

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Western Electric 1953

 

 

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Western Electric 1965

 

 

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Stanley 1985

 

 

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AT&T 1991

 

 

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Record-a-Call 1973

 

 

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American Telephone & Telegraph Co. 1934

 

 

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General Telephone & Electronics 1960

 

 

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"Independent Telephone Companies 1958

 

 

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[circlew]

RE: General Telephone on the West Coast

As mentioned in Reply #13. I'm wondering if their service there was any better than what they provided in Ohio? Our service with them was much less than desirable. I know they served several parts of the Los Angeles area, and other parts of CA, so did any of you out west reside in their territory?

 

[jamiel]

They were acquisitive in the West, completing acquisitions through the 50s and 60s to build up their footprint. Believe they didn't get the areas in Riverside County (Palm Springs/Coachella Valley) until the early 60s--before that it was the California Telephone Company. There's also a youtube out there from the Sunland-Tujunga independent telephone company touting their handling of a cutover/conversion in the late 50s which seemed to be before they got absorbed by GTE. You're right about the quality in Ohio, though...my aunt in Oberlin tells a story about her husband not hearing about a job offer because the call never came in in the early 70s.

 

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Jamie, that doesn't surprise me that GTE was on a buying spree out west at that time. When I was very young, the service in my immediate area was provided by Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co., and General acquired an interest in that company sometime in 1955. On June 30, 1958, it became General Telephone Co. of Ohio. It remained as such until 2000, when it became Verizon. In 2010, Verizon sold the territory to Frontier, and is currently that.

 

[ea56]

When we first moved to the Northern California Coast in ‘63 we had a PT&T toll station 5 party line. No dial service, you picked up the receiver and the operator came on the line and you gave your number and the number you wished to call and the operator rang in down. If the number you were calling was someone on your party line, you hung up while the operator rang the number and listened for the rings until your party answered, then picked up the receiver and proceeded with your call.

Then in ‘71 General Telephone acquired the phone service for the area and introduced dial service. I was already away from home for almost a year when this happened. Mom was over the moon getting a private line and dial service.

I don’t recall her having any difficulty with receiving or placing calls. However the billing was another matter. She frequently found that calls listed on the bill seemed excessive in time and the number of calls. The only calls that were local ie. no charge were within a 15 mile radius, everything else was a toll call. So she kept a spiral bound steno tablet next to the phone and meticulously recorded EVERY call made from the phone, the number called, date, time of call and disconnect. This way she was armed to dispute any invalid charges.

I believe that AT&T now has the service for this area again.

Eddie