Old El Paso
Telephone History, Vintage Photographs January 6th. 2009, 8:23am
Now we’re going way back with a photo of El Paso, Texas taken in 1903. A relatively new technology, telephone service still necessitated plenty of poles, crossbars and wires. Notice the Bell sign hung above the entrance to Kline’s Mexican & Indian Curio Company. (I’d sure like to step back in time and visit that place!) Lots of interesting details in this photo, more of which can be seen in the big version. For still more detail, if you have a high-speed connection, you may want to see the huge, and I mean huge, version. But be warned, it’s around 12 meg!
January 6th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
I really enjoy these kind of old pictures, lots of great time period detail. The Ma Bell sign is a classic. I recently found one on a telephone pole with a 1945 date spike, and the sign looked to be about that vintage as well.
January 7th, 2009 at 2:23 am
Teeny little sign, but what big honking cables coming out of that upper floor! Mexican and Indian antiquities must have been a booming business there–the store on the opposite corner sold the same stuff.