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Museum of Communications
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The second floor of the Museum of
Communications houses old telephones of all sorts. The following is a
picture gallery of the second floor. <- Go back to Third Floor Page 2
A Western Electric #3ESS
switch. I don’t know if its operational or not.
Massive collection of Western Electric 500 sets. Most people associate black for the color of the infamous 500 set, but this shows that a multitude of colors under the rainbow were made (check out that hot pink!). Also check out that 1500 set (Touch Tone without the * and # buttons) on the lower right side of the right hand picture.
Three crank-style pay phones!
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Here’s
a small switchboard. This was the kind of switchboard when you turned
the crank on your phone, a sign flipped down informing the operator
which line was ringing.
A
typical crank telephone of Western Electric make.
Line
cards from the #3ESS switch.
Various
cable splices, showing the importance of outside plant engineering.
Large
crossarms, showing open wire carrier configuration.
The
inside of a Western Electric 500 set. They don’t make them like this
anymore!
Fiber
optic splicing. Very delicate and tedious!
A
Tonka truck in the shape of a Bell System-era bucket truck. The
amazing thing is I used to own one as a kid! Wish I still had it..
would have been a neat collector’s item.
A
rate card for long distance calls.
Yet
another crank style pay phone.
More
and more various pay phones.
A
rotary (dial) version of the Western Electric fortress pay phone.
Old
top instruction card for the pay phone. Notice that 911 service was in
place by the time this instruction card was made.
And
here’s the old bottom instruction card. Note that TSPS (alowing for
coin based 1+ and 0+ calls) was in use by the time the card was made).
A
three-slot Western Electric pay phone.
Instruction
card for the three-slot phone.
I
never knew that the Western Electric 302 style phone came in any other
color than black. But this proof otherwise.