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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1847990" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>The building is long gone now, as my brother inherited the property in 2008, had the whole thing torn down, remains hauled away and sold the lot. At the time the picture was taken, almost right across the street was a brand new building that was The Phone Company. Southwestern Bell back then but it's something called Frontier Communications now. Not an office where ya paid your bill, but The Phone Company, where the mysterious workings that made your calls go thru was located. Just a big building, with a walk in front door and a few employees (2-3) and when there wasn't much traffic and especially if they had the door open, you could hear a constant 'clack-clack clack clack clack clack ' that never ended tho it did slow down late at night. I guess I was about 13 when I saw the door open and a couple of men standing around outside and I walked over and asked what they did and they said "we take care of the machines inside there" I asked if I could look inside. </p><p></p><p>One of them said "Yeah, I guess but just for a minute , And DON'T TOUCH NOTHING!" I had never seen anything like it. It was just row after row after row of tall busy machines and you could see all the parts just moving back and forth and up and down. It was loud too, and I was amazed and my eyes probably got big as saucers. We quickly went back out, and I asked him what all that was and he explained it was where our calls went thru and got directed to whoever we called.</p><p>I never looked at a telephone the same way again. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]43155[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1847990, member: 18945"] The building is long gone now, as my brother inherited the property in 2008, had the whole thing torn down, remains hauled away and sold the lot. At the time the picture was taken, almost right across the street was a brand new building that was The Phone Company. Southwestern Bell back then but it's something called Frontier Communications now. Not an office where ya paid your bill, but The Phone Company, where the mysterious workings that made your calls go thru was located. Just a big building, with a walk in front door and a few employees (2-3) and when there wasn't much traffic and especially if they had the door open, you could hear a constant 'clack-clack clack clack clack clack ' that never ended tho it did slow down late at night. I guess I was about 13 when I saw the door open and a couple of men standing around outside and I walked over and asked what they did and they said "we take care of the machines inside there" I asked if I could look inside. One of them said "Yeah, I guess but just for a minute , And DON'T TOUCH NOTHING!" I had never seen anything like it. It was just row after row after row of tall busy machines and you could see all the parts just moving back and forth and up and down. It was loud too, and I was amazed and my eyes probably got big as saucers. We quickly went back out, and I asked him what all that was and he explained it was where our calls went thru and got directed to whoever we called. I never looked at a telephone the same way again. [ATTACH type="full"]43155[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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