The 1966 AT&T ad made me think of my friend Mike. I met him around 1982 when he was an ESS tech for Cincinnati Bell Telephone. At the time he was 36, recently divorced, and had three kids. Unfortunately I lost contact with him a couple years later, and didn't locate him until 2021. I sent him a Christmas card, and he called me a few days later, and we talked for over an hour. We had hoped to get together that Summer, but it never happened. Much to my disappointment, I found out he passed away in December, 2022.
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Bendix 1947
When I was a telephone operator in the mid to late 70’s I worked as a Toll operator for the last year there. We each worked a 8 pair cord switchboard and we occasionally got “Mobile Calls” from people on car phones like in the ad. I remember once an older operator next to me telling the caller, “mobile move to higher ground” because the reception was cutting out while she was trying to connect the call. Mobile calls were all operator assisted calls back then, no direct dialing from car phones. The calls were all connected and disconnected by the operator on a cord switchboard, just like a long distance call on a payphone was then.
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Bell System 1925
