These or similar words are used many times daily by an attractive brown eyed, brown haired young lady named Joan Cox who is a switchboard operator at Goodwill Industries of El Paso. What’s unusual ...
Eventually to become affectionately known as “Old Betsy,” a Western Electric TBX-556A telephone switchboard went into service in 1958 in West Milford Town Hall to facilitate communication in the ...
Yongsan, South Korea, April 1987: Operators sit side-by-side at the Stromberg-Carlson switchboard at Yongsan, South Korea, connecting local calls. The switchboard was disconnected in April 1987 and ...
Before automation and technology took over, people held some pretty fascinating (and, let’s be honest, slightly bizarre) jobs. From switchboard operators plugging in calls to knocker-uppers rapping on ...