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Gossip benches

I remember seeing these or some variant of same everywhere growing up. More common than telephone nooks, even in old houses. Most dated from the late '40s/50s era.

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A little known fact......
After digging to a depth of 10 feet last year outside Buffalo, New York, scientists found traces of copper cable dating back 100 years<span class="text_exposed_show">. </span>

They came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a Los Angeles, California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet somewhere just outside Oceanside. Shortly afterward, a story in the LA Times read, "California archaeologists, reporting a finding of 200 year old copper cable, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.
One week later, a local newspaper in Green Bay, Wisconsin reported, "After digging 30 feet deep in his pasture near the community of Sobieski, Wisconsin, Ole Olson, a heck of an engineer and a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Wisconsin had already gone wireless.
Just makes a person proud to be from Wisconsin!!!

 
Interesting long distance ad in Illinois...believe Bloomington and Peoria are still independent (Frontier; formerly GTE). I had a funny experience 25 yrs ago...my grandfather grew up in Grand Mound, IA near Clinton. I was working for US Cellular and was visiting Davenport, IA and took a little field trip up to Grand Mound to see it. There was a little phone company in Grand Mound next door to a small insurance company...the phone company was much more advanced than I'd thought (actually embarrassed myself with some of the questions I asked) and some family had been on the board of the mutual insurance company.
 
You mean I have to dial the number myself from now on!

From 1936. We didn't get dial service home until 1966!
Always loved the sound the dial makes on those old phones.

 

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