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Identifier: belltelephonemag12amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ardor other post of duty during a severe earthquake. Switchboard in Contortions Loyalty to public service again came to the surface whenthe earthquake struck. At Long Beach, the Bell System longdistance office was being operated by about twenty girls. Allout-going calls from the city are handled by this center. Whenthe shock came they stood back while the switchboard appearedto go into contortions. The lights went out for eighteen min-utes, but the operators stuck to their posts handling calls forhalf an hour. Later they were directed to leave the buildingfollowing subsequent shocks. Protests from the girls arose,but they finally left the board. The Traffic Superintendent remained and completed someemergency calls received over the switchboard and from LongBeach city officials and others who came into the operatingroom to place calls. Emergency calls were put through forthe police, hospitals, Army, Navy, Marines, the NationalGuard and to the press. At about 8:00 p.m. the operators 146
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ThMPDRARV Tkiephoxe Service FOR THE Gexeral Public Was Ixstat.i.edAcross the Street from the Loxc Beach Toll Office. There were five hun-dred people around this installation the morniu.^ after the earthquake. ir^

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