I do recall that they really stretched out the cutovers. My
> grandparents house in Providence still had the old style call progress
> tones indicating they were still on the Panel until 1975 or so. The CO
> for most of Providence is a huge building -- at least 14 floors that
> were once filled with switching gear. Now it's just the 4th floor. The
> rest of the building is offices.
I was > Anyone traveling on Interstate 90 through Washington might be
interested in stopping at the telephone museum in Cle Elum. It's in
> the orginal manual exchange building and it was the labor of one local
> woman to preserve as much of the manual system and equipment as
> possible.
Cle Elum also did a stand in for Cicely, Alaska in the CBS series Northern Exposure!