Eventually to become affectionately known as “Old Betsy,” a Western Electric TBX-556A telephone switchboard went into service in 1958 in West Milford Town Hall to facilitate communication in ...

“There was a back area that had all these old dinosaur synths,” she remembers of the class. “Seeing the look of the Buchla synthesizer with the image of the switchboard that I was so ...

Q: We inherited an old telephone switchboard. We can't find any serial numbers and have no idea how to go about selling it. Maybe Craigslist? Any ideas? A: The query arrived with images of a ...

“When AT&T was contacted about the purchase of a new switching system, the only stipulation for the purchase was that the old switchboard be declared 'surplus' and the Devers could remove it ...

Old Forge is one of those places. Erma Scholl working the Old Forge switchboard in 1971. Photo courtesy of the Goodsell Museum. Betty Rannels and Kate LewisThe Old Forge switchboard and octopus ...

“He’d done a little bit of everything for the old McCordsville Telephone Company,” Thomas said. Lowell Thomas kept the switchboard for decades and recently donated it to NineStar ...