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Started by Sargeguy, September 23, 2014, 06:55:55 PM

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Quote from: HarrySmith on May 18, 2021, 08:08:06 AM
I give up. Where is the phone sign?

It is a tricky find. Left side of photo.
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HarrySmith

AHA! Thanks for pointing that out, I never would have found it!
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Witty

#287
I thought this was a very interesting photo added earlier by Whitcrane because I think it's one of the early Indian Motorcycles that Western Electric sold to Telco companies for phone servicemen to use. They sold a one cycle and a two cycle if I remember correctly. They appear in one of the WE early catalogs.

Ken

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Park Hotel.
Gateway Hotel.
Unknown.
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UK (ceramic insulators also shown).
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Dresden Mills, ME.
C 1910.
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ReneRondeau

Posted on Shorpy.com.

September 1941. "Telephone sign along highway. Judith Basin, Great Falls, Montana." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.

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Doug Rose

Quote from: ReneRondeau on July 27, 2021, 05:41:05 PM
Posted on Shorpy.com.

September 1941. "Telephone sign along highway. Judith Basin, Great Falls, Montana." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.

(Click to enlarge.)


Rene....that is one cool picture! ...thanks for posting....Doug
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Key2871

Yes, I agree very cool. A long way to a phone in those days..
KEN

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That must've been quite a job, wandering the country looking for subjects.
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Sudbury, England, early 1900's.

Westminster, London, England. 1920's.
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Royal Mail Parcel Coach, London, England, C 1900. Sacks marked 'Windsor Coach'. Note the pistol tucked into belt holster.

Capel Celyn, UK.
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