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by Anonymousreply 7September 30, 2025 10:20 PM

Girls!!!

by Anonymousreply 1September 30, 2025 7:08 PM

I saw this many years ago while going down the YT rabbit hole. I've always been fascinated by how telephones progressed -- maybe it's because my grandmother was one of the women who walked up and down behind operators. (Guess my age!). I find this quite interesting.

by Anonymousreply 2September 30, 2025 7:11 PM

How quaint. A 20 minute video telling people how to dial a phone.

by Anonymousreply 3September 30, 2025 7:44 PM

That is a nice little piece of nostalgia. They really did their best to make an idiot proof.

by Anonymousreply 4September 30, 2025 8:36 PM

R4 we now have new and improved idiots!

Interesting little video, thank OP. Its from 1940, a bit later than I thought

by Anonymousreply 5September 30, 2025 9:47 PM

Definitely before my time. Our phones had dials. But we also had a party line in the mid-'50s.

by Anonymousreply 6September 30, 2025 10:05 PM

I partied on the line

by Anonymousreply 7September 30, 2025 10:20 PM
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