#Telephone System

[phonesuite]

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[stone-cold-groove]

It’s all right... there’s a telephone right here, too! Bell Telephone System ad - 1955.

[taperwolf]

My city's downtown has a big old building that used to house all the AT&T stuff. When I first came to town, I got a job taking phone orders for a mail-order company that sells holiday gifts, food baskets and suchlike. Internet shopping didn't exist then, so from November through December they had rented out a couple of floors of the building to set up phones and old IBM terminals for the seasonal employees to enter in the nonstop phone orders.

Down on the first floor, near windows that looked out on the street, they used to have a sort of mini-museum display of old switchboards. And the other day I discovered that while whoever now owns the building has taken down the signs, the switchboards are still there.

(This is the best shot I could get at the time; I had to block the reflections with my body and a tote bag to see past the glass at all.)

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

"TOOLS OF TELEPHONY" 1956 WESTERN ELECTRIC TELEPHONE SYSTEM PROMO FILM BELL SYSTEM 98694

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"READY FOR THE CRIMINAL," Toronto Globe. February 21, 1930. Page 4. ---- Police methods continue to advance from one degree of efficiency to another, and the latest evidence of this is the installation of the flash-and-bell signal system. By this plan headquarters will be constantly and instantly in touch with the various stations and with the patrolmen on the most remote beats. Included in the new arrangement is an automatic telephone system, which will enable a policeman, no matter in what part of the city he may be, to get immediate connection with the chief officials at headquarters, and then, by means of the teletype, his information is relayed to every member of the force on duty at the time.

This is an important innovation. The criminal is becoming more and more ingenious and resourceful in his work. He has an advantage of the police in that his plans are made carefully and leisurely, discounting all probable attempts afterward to effect his capture, whereas the police have to act on a moment's notice and on whatever meagre clue may be available. Under the ordinary system of telephoning, hours were occupied in notifying stations and patrolmen, and this gave the bandit or other offender a better chance to effect his "getaway." Now, everything can be done in a few seconds, and the whole force massed for action in an incredibly short time.

All this is reassuring to the citizen. He has ample evidence that the guardians of the city are equipped for immediate action. And this knowledge also will have a restraining influence on the thugs who contemplate serious offenses against the law. The facilities for easy escape have been prolific promoters of crime, but the new devices installed under Chief Draper will remove these, and should be effective in checking the activities of the bandit and his kind.

[thegikitiki]

Two Phones That Ring As One...

Bell System Telephones, 1966

[shanklin]

It’s the most honest job Stan’s ever had.

Sure, the company he’s working for is downright diabolical, scamming their customers in all aspects of life, but that’s not Stan’s problem.

As Le Ville Corp’s most successful customer service agent in the Oregon area his only job is to follow the company guidelines, sell as many bad deals as possible and never ever let anyone back out of a contract. 

Morality aside, nothing the company does is actually illegal, so at the end of the day Stan gets to collect his almost-minimum-wage-sized paycheck and go home in the knowledge, that no pigs will come knocking on his door anytime soon.

Life is good. Or at least as good as it gets where Stan is concerned. Last month he even got a raise for selling every bad product the company had to offer to one poor kind sucker. 

From household appliances to car insurance, magazine subscriptions and even their extremely shitty telephone and electricity contracts - the McGucket guy brought it all.

Thanks to him, Stan could upgrade from his car to an almost black mold free one room appartment with a community bathroom one block over.

Stan was finally moving up in the world and then his phone rings. He recognises the number. It’s his good friend Fiddle-not-gonna-say-the-rest McGucket.

Stan grins and cracks his knuckles. It’s about time McGucket figured out he’s gotten scammed. Time to make the poor guy’s life a living hell. No one is getting out of a contract on his watch.

“Thank you for calling Le Ville Corp. For us you are more than just a customer. You are family! This is Piers. How can I help you today?”

The moment Stan starts his greeting, he is bombarded with noise disturbances from the other side.

Ah, the good old Le Ville Corp telephone network working as intended. Maybe Stan can convince the guy to upgrade to a slightly less egregious version. 

Wait, what did he say?

His name is Dr. Stammered Lynes? Weird, but okay. Still better than Fiddle-nope-not-saying-it Hardon McGucket.

As it turns out, Stan finally met the mysterious roommate whose money McGucket has been using to pay for all of their products. Stan didn’t think the guy had it in him to ditch his roommate after the scam got discovered. Good for him!

Now, how to best screw Dr. Lynes here over.

***

An hour and a half of data security safety questions and a new phone contract later the doc hangs up to Stan’s cheery and corporate mandated farewell:

“And don’t forget we here at Le Ville Corp consider you our forever family, because you will stay with us forever!”

***

Stanford Pines just had the worst month of his life [not counting the weeks after the science fair that he refuses to think about].

The portal test was a disaster, his partner left, his muse refuses to explain himself and on top of all of that his new fridge won’t open, because this week’s subscription fee hasn’t been paid yet.

What the f-FIDDLEFORD!

[goshyesvintageads]

Western Electric Co, 1953

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[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Telephone Directory, Whyteville, VA, UTS, December 1973

[pretty-little-fools]

[stone-cold-groove]

The Trimline telephone puts the whole phone in your hand. Western Electric ad for the Bell System’s Trimline phone - 1979.

[plusie]

[wordfromoursponsor]

"Someday you may pay bills by phone. You will simply insert special plastic cards into a telephone set that dials automatically, and then detail the dollars and cents by pushing numbered Touch-Tone® buttons. In this way you will ring your bank's computer, identify your account with a code number, and tell the computer whom to pay and how much." (1965)