Flashback: NYC And The Telephone
13 photos
<p>"Telephone girls on Stock Quotation Service." 1961.</p>
<p>"Operators working in Telephone Room of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel." 1944.</p>
<p>circa 1939</p>
<p>"New York Telephone operator checking a listing fr. foreign telephone directories to 110 big cities in the overseas switchboard room." 1938.</p>
<p>"Telephone repair man splicing a wire in a manhole for under the street telephone cables of the New York Telephone Co." 1938.</p>
<p>"Four servicemen talking with faraway homes or friends from booths at GI phone center in Times Square." 1944.</p>
<p>L: "Woman talking on the phone as her hair sets at beauty salon at Saks Fifth Avenue." 1962. R: "President of United Federation of Teachers Albert Shanker making a telephone call during the NYC school strike." 1968.</p>
<p>"A man using the public telephone booth." Brooklyn, NY. 1957.</p>
<p>"Woman talking on her car phone." New York City, 1960.</p>
<p>Phone booths or smoking booths? November 1955.</p>
<p>"Telephone operators consulting local & long distance books, special directories & a daily directory of new numbers as they answer 2,000,000 queries a day in the US at New York Telephone Co. information center." 1939.</p>
<p>"Singer Billy Eckstine (L) talking on phone nr. singer Frank Sinatra (seated) & unident. man, at ABC radio studio." New York City, 1950.</p>
<p>"Mrs. Elizabeth Arden Graham in evening dress talking on the phone in her bedroom." New York City, 1936.</p>