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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.

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922)

Students and

teachers should start

here for information,

photos, etc. that may

be useful for their

lessons, projects and homework

assignments.

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.

Historians and

researchers may

want to start here.

Do you collect old

Western Electric

telephones or have

a hobby involving telecommunications

or electronics?

Interested in joining

a collectors club?

Check out our very own Western Electric Store for quality phones and

accessories. Click on "The Western Electric Store" logo to view the site.

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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."

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!

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 ad?

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