The Woman Who Made History by Answering the Phone

As an operator, Nutt pressed all the right buttons: she was patient and savvy, her voice cultured and soothing, according to ...
Yahoo

The history of the American phone book

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo ...
Times Union

‘Hello Girls’: The female telephone operators who helped win WWI

ALBANY — Less than two miles behind the front lines during World War I, some American women telephone operators sat at switchboards that shook severely from the sounds of the big guns they could hear ...
KQED

Ring, Ring! The Stories Behind SF’s Chinese Telephone Exchange

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...
Berkshire Eagle

Eagle Archives, Dec. 2, 1974: Lebanon area bidding farewell to telephone-operator service

NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — The last stage in the Taconic Telephone Co.'s transition to direct-distance dialing will be completed when the New Lebanon area is included in the system next Saturday, at 2:01 p.m ...