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Title
Old Black Telephone By Kaye Menner
Artist
Kaye Menner
Medium
Photograph - Photography, Digital Border
Description
A beautiful old black telephone which I remember when I was a child. This was a solid and quite heavy telephone and even the hand piece was quite heavy. But the quality of sound was perfect.
I loved the way it had both letters and numbers on the round / circular dial. I still remember dialing the letters WF before my 4 digit number to dial home.
Phone numbers looked like this in the middle of the 20th century because of telephone exchanges. These were the hubs through which an area's calls would be routed. Phone subscribers were given a unique five-digit number within their service area. These would be preceded by two digits—which were identified by letters—that denoted the telephone exchange you were connected to. (Before the 1950s, some cities used three letters and four numbers, while others had two letters and three numbers. The two letter, five number format—or "2L-5N"—was eventually standardized throughout the country).
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May 9th, 2018
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