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Click on the above logos to
get a larger image and to access the logos page.
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A website created as a memorial to the
people,
history, technology and the "Spirit of
Service"
of what was known as the "Bell System" prior
to 1984.
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Students and
teachers should start
here for information,
photos, etc. that may
be useful for their
lessons, projects and homework
assignments.
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AT&T, Western
Electric, Bell Labs,
Bell Operating
Company retirees
and current
employees of the
companies divested
from AT&T might
want to start here.
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Historians and
researchers may
want to start here.
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Do you collect old
Western Electric
telephones or have a
hobby involving telecommunications
or electronics?
Interested in joining
a collectors club?
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The End
of an Era - A New Beginning (December 31, 1983)
"The
Bell System as we have known it will exist only in
our memories and in the
history books."
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The Bell System provided
what was by all accounts the best telephone service in the world.
Could the year 2004 mark the beginning of a NEW BELL SYSTEM?
Charlie
Stanley, an AT&T employee who was born in the year the Bell System died, created
a hoax web page of what he envisions as a new Bell System. To see his
creation, click
HERE.
Thanks Charlie for your addition to this website! |
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Many years before the US Government destroyed the Bell System there was a "Plot
to Bury the Bell System". Of course the advertisement was about
burying cable and not about a plot on the part of the US Government to "bury"
the Bell System! But one wonders if there was some double-meaning intended in that
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