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Posted by Steven Lichter on August 12, 2009, 9:15 pm
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I just go my July/August issue of Telephony. In it the editor tells
everyone that this will be the last print issue after 108 year. When I
starting for California Water Telephone (GTE) in 1967 I used to read my
supervisors issue, and was able to lean a lot of what was happening;
from what I remember is was pretty good sized with a lot of ads. Over
the years and in the last few it has gotten spammer with each issue.
They will continue with the on line issues and a new print wil be called
Connected Planet. I have had my own issue for the last 30 years, and
I think I have all of those in boxes in the garage: I have looked at
older issues over the and have seen the changes, gone are the ads from
Automatic Electric for step stuff and Western Electric ads.
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Posted by Sam Spade on August 13, 2009, 11:18 am
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Steven Lichter wrote:
> I just go my July/August issue of Telephony. In it the editor tells
> everyone that this will be the last print issue after 108 year. When I
> starting for California Water Telephone (GTE) in 1967 I used to read my
> supervisors issue, and was able to lean a lot of what was happening;
> from what I remember is was pretty good sized with a lot of ads. Over
> the years and in the last few it has gotten spammer with each issue.
> They will continue with the on line issues and a new print wil be called
> Connected Planet. I have had my own issue for the last 30 years, and
> I think I have all of those in boxes in the garage: I have looked at
> older issues over the and have seen the changes, gone are the ads from
> Automatic Electric for step stuff and Western Electric ads.
Wasn't 1967 the year that California Water and Telephone (Cal Drip and
Tinkle my dad called it) was absorbed by General Telephone? I grew up
in Monrovia, which was CWT territory. We didn't get a dial office until
1950.
As I recall, CWT had a large operating territory, although it was not
contiguous; northern San Fernando Valley, then skip to Sierra Madre,
north side of Arcadia, Monrovia/Duarte, then skip out to
Redlands/Banning/Palm Srings area. Any other CWT territory prior to the
General Telephone takeover?
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Posted by Steven on August 13, 2009, 4:44 pm
Please log in for more thread options Sam Spade wrote:
> Steven Lichter wrote:
>> I just go my July/August issue of Telephony. In it the editor tells
>> everyone that this will be the last print issue after 108 year. When
>> I starting for California Water Telephone (GTE) in 1967 I used to read
>> my supervisors issue, and was able to lean a lot of what was
>> happening; from what I remember is was pretty good sized with a lot of
>> ads. Over the years and in the last few it has gotten spammer with
>> each issue. They will continue with the on line issues and a new print
>> wil be called Connected Planet. I have had my own issue for the
>> last 30 years, and I think I have all of those in boxes in the
>> garage: I have looked at older issues over the and have seen the
>> changes, gone are the ads from Automatic Electric for step stuff and
>> Western Electric ads.
>
> Wasn't 1967 the year that California Water and Telephone (Cal Drip and
> Tinkle my dad called it) was absorbed by General Telephone? I grew up
> in Monrovia, which was CWT territory. We didn't get a dial office until
> 1950.
>
> As I recall, CWT had a large operating territory, although it was not
> contiguous; northern San Fernando Valley, then skip to Sierra Madre,
> north side of Arcadia, Monrovia/Duarte, then skip out to
> Redlands/Banning/Palm Springs area. Any other CWT territory prior to the
> General Telephone takeover?
>
General System bought CWT ad 2 others in 1966 and 67, but let them run
on there own thru 1967, I was sent to basic CO school, but could not use
most of my training for a couple of years. I was one of the last under
CWT and was stuck in a 7 year top while others were under a 5 year top.
Contel took much longer to merge.
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Posted by on August 13, 2009, 4:44 pm
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> I have had my own issue for the last 30 years, and
> I think I have all of those in boxes in the garage: I have looked at
> older issues over the and have seen the changes, gone are the ads from
> Automatic Electric for step stuff and Western Electric ads.
I believe the following request would be a great deal of work, but
would it be possible to scan a few of the oldest issues for the
Telecom Archives? (They have the Western Union Tech Review and other
neat old documents).
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Posted by Steven on August 13, 2009, 8:17 pm
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> wrote:
>> I have had my own issue for the last 30 years, and
>> I think I have all of those in boxes in the garage: I have looked at
>> older issues over the and have seen the changes, gone are the ads from
>> Automatic Electric for step stuff and Western Electric ads.
>
> I believe the following request would be a great deal of work, but
> would it be possible to scan a few of the oldest issues for the
> Telecom Archives? (They have the Western Union Tech Review and other
> neat old documents).
>
I'll e-mail the publisher and see what the say, and then dig out my old
flat bed scanner and give it a try. I wonder if they have on line archive?
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> everyone that this will be the last print issue after 108 year. When I
> starting for California Water Telephone (GTE) in 1967 I used to read my
> supervisors issue, and was able to lean a lot of what was happening;
> from what I remember is was pretty good sized with a lot of ads. Over
> the years and in the last few it has gotten spammer with each issue.
> They will continue with the on line issues and a new print wil be called
> Connected Planet. I have had my own issue for the last 30 years, and
> I think I have all of those in boxes in the garage: I have looked at
> older issues over the and have seen the changes, gone are the ads from
> Automatic Electric for step stuff and Western Electric ads.