"Nimble-fingered girls." MT @BeschlossDC: ad touting long-distance telephone US service.pic.twitter.com/UzfV9w6c1Y
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"Nimble-fingered girls." MT @BeschlossDC: ad touting long-distance telephone US service.pic.twitter.com/UzfV9w6c1Y
@KayGardiner kids would call her up looking for their parents and she'd plug them into to who's ever house they we're visiting
@KnittedWit @KayGardiner I love that switchboard operators worked better than modern tech at figuring out where kids were.
@effortlesszone @KnittedWit I remember it as a high prestige job. My childhood best friend's mom returned to it when we were in high school.
@KayGardiner @KnittedWit Switchboard *was* high-prestige. It beat most of the era's alternatives for women.
.@BeschlossDC Finally a modern mile-stone that started before I was born! #NimbleFingeredGirls
@BeschlossDC Love this since I am in the telecom business. Reminds me of toll booths. Technology and automation got rid of these functions.
@BeschlossDC And I remember when you had to go through an operator and it cost a small fortune. It seemed at the time anyway.
@BeschlossDC "One ringy dingy... two ringy dingies... Oh! A gracious good afternoon. Is this the party to whom I am speaking?"
@BeschlossDC That looks almost (but not quite) as sophisticated as the Obamacare website!
A phone call in 2013 sounds worse than it did then. That's progress! @BeschlossDC Coast-to-coast direct-dial phone service began today 1951.
“@BeschlossDC: an ad touting coast-to-coast direct-dial long-distance telephone US service, 1951: pic.twitter.com/XcMdQZfD34”//tech shift micro
@BeschlossDC love the arcane caption underneath pic. You go girlz!!!
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