My best wishes to all the readers as we celebrate the Winter Solstice.
I wish you and yours the best of the holidays, and a prosperous new year.
Bill
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Seasons Greetings [telecom]
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A happy and healthy new year to all!
Some Bell System holiday ads:
An ad from 1941 asking folks NOT to make calls on Christmas due to overloaded circuits:
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These kinds of ads would continue throughout the war years until traffic reduced and Bell was able to get materials and labor to build more long distance lines.
Back then long distance was inefficient as calls had to be manually "built up" by several operators along the route from origin to destination. Often circuits were busy and the call had to be held.
Bell had a huge automation effort throughout the 1950s. Both local exchanges got dial, and long distance interconnections were automated.
By the late 1950s Bell had enough resources that it could advertise for extra services and equipment:
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