Lowell is have Dial Telephones After Saturday at 11 p.m

1956-08-12

Lowell, Lane County, Oregon, United States

This article is issuing a statement about the telephone service being integrated into Lowell that replaces the ‘crank-type’ phones from the 1910. There was only one phone at the store that ‘subscribers’ of north bank of the upper Willamette, Fall Creek and Lowell could use. Another phone was used for the Springfield region. This article explains that the dial phones, rotary phones are replacing the ’party line’ phone. There was 50 ‘girls’ that were trained as operators and transferred to different regions and six to eight stayed. This was a passing of an era where the locals would hear a familiar voice transferring their calls, will be no longer.

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Description: This article is issuing a statement about the telephone service being integrated into Lowell that replaces the ‘crank-type’ phones from the 1910. There was only one phone at the store that ‘subscribers’ of north bank of the upper Willamette, Fall Creek and Lowell could use. Another phone was used for the Springfield region. This article explains that the dial phones, rotary phones are replacing the ’party line’ phone. There was 50 ‘girls’ that were trained as operators and transferred to different regions and six to eight stayed. This was a passing of an era where the locals would hear a familiar voice transferring their calls, will be no longer.
Identifier: Lowell_misc_news_1956_08_12
Date: 1956-08-12
Spatial Coverage: Lowell, Lane County, Oregon, United States
Source: The Register-Guard
Subject: Telephone History
Format: text/pdf
Type: Text
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Contributor: Maggie Osgood Library

Item sets: Lowell Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings

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