History - 1978 - Santa Catalina Island cutover to dial [telecom]

When this offshore community converted to dial telephone service in

1978, it made the national news. It was the last Bell System manual exchange.

An newspaper article describes the cutover:

A Bell Labs Record article, which unfortunately, isn't available on line, described the small sized modular ESS that was used to replace the switchboard.

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Posted 5 years ago by HAncock4 in General Telecommunications Forum

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