This was actually a 1959 "orientation" film for new AT&T employees and was also made available to the public through the offices of the Bell Telephone Company. This was an update on a film that had been made about 10 years prior. Owen Murphy Productions was contracted by AT&T, NJ Bell, and NY Tel, to produce films for them, some were made for theatrical distribution as well.
@c0t0d0s7
2 жыл бұрын
Hey kids, ya wanna go see a movie? It’s a orientation/documentary from AT&T on telephones in the 1950s! Kids? Kids? 🤪
@jkvelasquez84
2 жыл бұрын
@@c0t0d0s7 I would, but then again I consider myself a nerd so.....
@James_Knott
Жыл бұрын
There were a few clues it wasn't 1950. The most obvious was the cars. Some of them were from the late '50s. There was also a tech using a wire wrap gun, which couldn't possibly be before 1953. The type 500 phones were just appearing in 1950, so it was possible, though not likely most customers would see one, SAGE and DEW line were from the late '50s, printed circuit boards weren't commonly used until the mid '50s, there was no telephone cable crossing an ocean until 1956 and there certainly wasn't such a thing as a pocket size transistor radio in 1950.
@altfactor
Жыл бұрын
I'd rather see "Ishtar" or "Plan 9 From Outer Space"!
@friendofdorothy9376
Жыл бұрын
I saw a 1960 Cadillac, so this had to be fall of 1959.
@JohnK8
2 жыл бұрын
So proud of my time in the Bell System. 85 years of service between my dad, my brother and myself. Training was more like indoctrination. Providing good service safely was the top priority.
@blu3_enjoy
Ай бұрын
🫡
@timeimp
4 жыл бұрын
To think that this was in a time when the transistor was _just_ invented. What a time to have been alive!
@James_Knott
Жыл бұрын
The transistor was invented in 1947 but didn't become commonplace until the 60s. Prior to that, they were only used in critical applications, such as missiles and the first consumer use was in hearing aids.
@nkmcfrln
9 ай бұрын
@@James_Knott1947
@misterwhipple2870
8 ай бұрын
@@James_Knott Starting in 1957, you could get them in luxury cars like Cadillacs and Imperials, to get instant-on, no warm-up, failure-free TUBELESS radios (and it cut the size of the radio down by 2/3rds), but they cost hundreds more. That was easily 15% of the car's price.
@James_Knott
8 ай бұрын
@@misterwhipple2870 Sorry, that was a typo, now corrected. I meant 1947
@TheOzthewiz
Жыл бұрын
Back when you had REAL LIVE people answering the phone instead of a machine. What a wonderful experience that was!
@josephmarzullo
4 ай бұрын
I don’t like people
@misterwhipple2870
Жыл бұрын
It was a great thing to work for Ma Bell. It was hard and discipline was strict, but the pay and benefits were some of the best in the country. People were proud to work for the telephone company. I know I was, I spent 28 years in Long Lines and I would be there today if my health had not failed. Most people stayed for life. I miss the old AT&T and I would go back if I could. My mother started as a operator in 1949; I told her she should have never left.
@caidhg
3 жыл бұрын
It's a trip to think when I climb up into some of this equipment. sometimes it's the same exact cable hung by these guys.
@coreybabcock2023
Жыл бұрын
Right
@Brian-yt8fu
9 ай бұрын
I was a technician assigned to work with an old timer with 30 yr experience. I always remember how paient he was as i asked a lot of questions.
@LMacNeill
7 жыл бұрын
Both of my parents worked at Western Electric in the '60s. That's where they met, in fact. So without Western Electric and AT&T, I probably wouldn't exist! :-)
@scarakus
5 жыл бұрын
My mom worked at western electric, until they tore it down in the early 80's, and stripped the land cause it was toxic, then she died of cancer a few years later. the land is still bare today in 2019.
@scarakus
4 жыл бұрын
@Sean Embry Yea she was a solderer..
@rayfridley6649
4 жыл бұрын
I disagree with this statement. Western Electric is not the only manufacturer of phones and other telecommunications gear. Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Co, Automatic Electric Co, Stromberg-Carlson and a few others also manufacture phone equipment. AT&T along with the Bell operating companies would certainly purchase from these.
@libertyann439
4 жыл бұрын
Or you would look different!
@inkyguy
4 жыл бұрын
LMacNeill , you’re the result a telephone connection.
@datboyjeff
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful training documentary. I cannot believe this is how things used to be done in a world before automation. It’s eye opening and make me have a different level of respect for field techs and my guys on the Network teams.
@tinasmith1391
2 жыл бұрын
Back in the days when a person might have a 40 year career doing one job. It's like watching something from a different planet.
@ilovemayo123
Жыл бұрын
It’s almost like everything swung the opposite way. The problems they had, we don’t have and the problems we have now, they didn’t have
@Brian-yt8fu
9 ай бұрын
Your comment on the bell system one of my co workers retired after 42 yr service.
@davidkrupa2908
3 ай бұрын
I gave them 41 years. Great job.
@peterweatherley7669
5 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who enjoyed the music as much as the technological aspect of this?
@winstonslone2797
Ай бұрын
I understand the struggle of the operator. I was a tech in the operations center at TDS telecom in Mooresville NC. When covid hit everyone moved to working from home but someone had to be at the office to handle hardware issues. It was just me and 10 field techs keeping it running. I'm retired by disability now but it is a proud moment in my career. Without us Western North Carolina would of lost a good portion of internet, cable tv and phone service. We provided service to a hospital, fire station and police department including 911
@workingtheworld68
4 жыл бұрын
The Bell System was a regulated monopoly. Their goal was 99.999% availability (five 9's) and to my memory they achieved it. Plus all the breakthroughs from Bell Labs to numerous to list here. The Feds finally deregulated it in the 1980s. I do miss calling information though - sharp gals and quick answers.
@melaniexoxo
2 жыл бұрын
Deregulation hurt everything IMO
@americanspirit8932
2 жыл бұрын
In my opinion break up of the Bell System in 1984 by judge green, was the biggest mistake ever made in the United States concerning business. Employed millions of people throughout the country with excellent benefits, the best communication system in the entire world, and they had to go break it up and put the two cents in knowing nothing about Communications. I was employed for 36 years starting with Western Electric then they changed names couple of times ended up under AT&T, Noki. Today September 14th 2022. I started working February of 1963. Seems like yesterday.
@Open_DoorMedia
Жыл бұрын
@@melaniexoxo Not in all cases . In Nigeria, we are happy that our Federal Government ended the monopoly of NITEL, the National telecom company through deregulation. Today, Nigeria has the highest number of telephone and internet users in Africa .
@friendofdorothy9376
Жыл бұрын
Growing up I never looked in the phone book. Always called information for everything.
@mharris5047
8 ай бұрын
@@friendofdorothy9376 Most of the time I used the phone book (I actually had to keep both a local phone book and one for the large city containing the university I taught at) but remember when (on GTE) eight calls monthly to the operator were included in my telephone service. After deregulation it dropped to three and then to one and then to none. I haven't called the operator in 20 years, I did use 411 through my cellular phone provider when they had free 411 service but that is gone as well. I never got into making collect calls so I didn't need the operator for that, I think I have made one or two in my long lifetime. I did use a calling card when those were a thing, those didn't require operator assistance. Today, I can look up many numbers right here on the internet, also negating the need for operator assistance.
@michaelprice_music
Жыл бұрын
I love these videos. The best sleep material out there!
@hankaustin7091
5 жыл бұрын
This film is most definitely from the late 50s.. that '59 Oldsmobile at the start of the film proves that right away..
@OldsVistaCruiser
4 жыл бұрын
Yup, at 0:12. I had a '59 Olds 98.
@hebneh
4 жыл бұрын
There’s also a ‘59 Cadillac later.
@OldsVistaCruiser
4 жыл бұрын
At 25:25, a prototype Touch-Tone® phone is shown. They were first released to the public in 1964.
@robertborchert932
4 жыл бұрын
I noticed that! Early DTMF system before the familiar square Western Electric touch tone telephone. Note the round bezel on the prototype? Super cool.
@StringerNews1
4 жыл бұрын
@@robertborchert932 Note the lack of star and pound keys too, just like the 1st gen DTMF phones we got in 1967.
@Janotes
4 жыл бұрын
I believe that set was eventually the WE 1500 set. No star or pound symbol. Kinda looks like the government AutoVon sets..
@James_Knott
Жыл бұрын
I noticed that too. There were a lot of clues this wasn't from 1950.
@jeffgarrett4533
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the old days when responsibility was taken on and taken seriously and more importantly it was taken personally.
@dianaisom9206
3 жыл бұрын
and racist
@redd_cat
3 жыл бұрын
@@dianaisom9206 bugman detected. go back to your pod and let us love our country and people in peace.
@videodistro
3 жыл бұрын
@diana I knew some moron like you would say "see all the whites". Didn't you see the minority kids on the playground? Or did you choose to ignore them? And, you apparently didn't live in rural America in the 50's. There we very few minorities. Hence the term "minority". Get it? Minority groups have grown leaps.and bounds the last 50 years. Next time.you try to inject race where it doesn't belong, try to gain some understanding before you open your mouth and sound like an idiot.
@videodistro
3 жыл бұрын
And, all races could order and have a telephone. Diana, YOU are the racist.
@dianaisom9206
3 жыл бұрын
@@videodistro 😂😂😂 aww is someone butthurt? Well at this time segregation was huge so there’s no integrated kids together playing anywhere. It was extremely taboo. I loved the culture in the 1950s but I wish it wasn’t racist. I wish we all were together as one race: the human race Don’t call me racist for saying the obvious. The civil rights bill didn’t come until 1964. Schools were completely segregated. And if they were not...they were breaking the law.
@CmdrKeene
3 жыл бұрын
Just incredible breadth in this video. Really amazing picture of the early part of our modern society
@CARLIN4737
4 ай бұрын
Beautiful...Love the old days.
@JamieToddBand
3 жыл бұрын
Nice music. Sounds like an episode of Leave It To Beaver.
@VideoNOLA
4 жыл бұрын
8:04 I used to collect and use all those special technician/test numbers, like the "Ringback" one he dials in to make the new line ring. I doubt any of those still exist.
@Janotes
4 жыл бұрын
In NYC we had 660.. 660-7 used to shut the line off. 660-6 used to send ring generator back after you hang up. One time when I was playing around with different digits, I guess somebody from the C.O. answered me and threatened to shut off the service.
@Janotes
4 жыл бұрын
660-7 came in handy around banks of payphones. As kids my friends and I would dial the number at the payphones It would shut the dial tone off for 5 minutes. Anyone walking up to use the phone would lose their deposit until The dial tone came back. We always had Quarters for video games. This was the early 80s👍
@Janotes
3 жыл бұрын
@Brains00007 I will admit it's been a good 35 years since the early 80s for me but after a google search of coin telephone costs it appears the Bell System was granted a rate increase in 1984 for certain major cities up to .25 cents. We had New York Telephone As our carrier back in the day so I guess my comment should have Read this was the "mid 80s" instead.👍
@James_Knott
Жыл бұрын
Last time I did that was just a few years ago. However, I expect it will disappear as the world moves to voice over IP.
@James_Knott
Жыл бұрын
@@Janotes In Canada, pay phone competition appeared just in time to be put out of business by cell phones.
@allandavis8201
3 жыл бұрын
I love these old promotional films, they are so simplistic into every way of life, a more laid back more easy and interesting story, everyone so well dressed and affluent, definitely a lot of poetic license, things back then were just as problematic as they are today, well maybe not 2020/21, these films have a way, deliberately, of making everything seem idilic and give you the ‘hard sell’ without you realising it. Thanks for sharing 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
@TattedIrishxxx
2 жыл бұрын
You Do realize not everyone was “affluent” then?
@mharris5047
8 ай бұрын
@@TattedIrishxxx Everyone isn't "affluent" or "rich" now. I live in a wealthy part of the country and there are people struggling even here.
@TattedIrishxxx
8 ай бұрын
@@mharris5047 exactly
@josephgaviota
4 ай бұрын
Even in the '60s, I had friends at school who did NOT have a telephone in their home.
@nerdsrock243
4 жыл бұрын
This was actually filmed in 1960, or perhaps the fall of 1959 at the earliest. (several model year 1960 vehicles spotted)
@yuppiehi
4 жыл бұрын
No, it was definitely 1950 or late 1940s. When the invention of the transistor is mentioned, it was mentioned within the context of it being recently invented, which was 1947 (1948 for bi-polar transistors.) Also, by 1960, there weren't as many switchboard operators, as by 1960 much of the country's phone switching system were automated. The central office equipment in this film is well dated around the late 1940s/early 1950s. And, if you look at the phone numbers, they were all four digits. In 1960, most of the country were already on the five to seven-digit systems.
@nerdsrock243
4 жыл бұрын
yuppiehi - Go to 5:41 in the video. The car behind the police officer is a 1960 Cadillac Sedan deVille. The car on the right is a 1959 Ford Thunderbird. Care to explain how vehicles from 20 years in the future are in a film that is "definitely 1950 or late 40s"? As a person alive when these cars were new, I know a '59 T-Bird and a '60 Caddy when I see one. As another commenter said, there is also a 1959 Olds at the start.
@yuppiehi
4 жыл бұрын
@@nerdsrock243 It is possible that, when AT&T restored this video from the reel-to-reel archive, portions of the video were ruined in some way. Therefore, they could have replaced portions of the damaged video, while retaining the audio, with pieces from other videos that were made years later. And, they probably didn't count on a car expert to pick up on these edits.
@nerdsrock243
4 жыл бұрын
lol Well, maybe less an expert and more an old fart that sometimes could learn to chill. Have a good evening! (or whatever it is where you are)
@James_Knott
Жыл бұрын
@@yuppiehi There were several things that didn't exist in 1950. For example SAGE and the DEW line. These were defense networks that didn't exist until the late 50s. There certainly weren't any pocket transistor radios in 1950. Also, check out some of the cars.
@dariusanderton3760
4 жыл бұрын
16:48 I remember the weird looking bills that used to come. They were little cards full of holes, and I think you had to mail the card back along with your check. I havent seen one of those in decades.
@jpolar394
4 жыл бұрын
Remember when they used to send you grocery store coupons to your house with the little key punch holes in them from the manufacturer ?
@howardmifflin5439
4 жыл бұрын
Those were the IBM punch cards and it was printed on your return envelope not to fold, spindle or mutilate it. Of course it they messed up your bill it is rumored that someone might actually do that. WHO ME!!
@parteibonza
4 жыл бұрын
@@howardmifflin5439 well...if you disobey they can disconnect your ass and blacklist you....so....
@c0t0d0s7
2 жыл бұрын
“Do not fold, spindle or mutilate” would be a cool name for a band.
@James_Knott
Жыл бұрын
But first you had to fold, spindle and mutilate those cards. 😀
@ppc7457
5 жыл бұрын
Good old days
@dianebrown9383
5 жыл бұрын
I miss those days when the telephone man would come to your house and bring you any type of phone you wanted
@zelphx
4 жыл бұрын
I did not care waiting around for him to show up!
@robertborchert932
4 жыл бұрын
I do too. Today people want instant gratification. I remember chatting with the technician, choosing between the standard rotary phones, and the latest "princess" rotary phone. It had western electric logos on the handset. Ah, the old days....
@Janotes
4 жыл бұрын
Grew up in the waning days of the Bell System, I used to open up the telephone sets at home to explore- sometimes breaking something in the process. Then I would watch the repairman fix or Replace the sets. I have had a lifetime Interest ever since.
@James_Knott
Жыл бұрын
Anything other than black cost extra per month, as did touch tone and phone jacks.
@misterwhipple2870
Жыл бұрын
My mom got a super-long cord added so she could walk all around the house while she talked. One day she heard this grunting noise coming from the other room and she got up to investigate. My brother was trying to pinch the phone cord like a garden hose to cut off the conversation but of course that did not work. I think he was 3 or 4.
@calbob750
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the day Ma Bell owned the telephones. If you bought your own phone to have an extension you were supposed to notify the phone company so they could bill you.
@Sparky-ww5re
3 жыл бұрын
A little bit before my time. I was born in 1989. As a child i can remember my grandmother still having her rotary dial phone next to the washer and dryer in her kitchen and she was telling me stories on how if ever there was a problem with the phone, the phone company would come over to the house and repair it, free of charge. Of course those old company owned phones were tanks and so reliable and robust they very seldom if ever needed service. Her next door neighbor still has two that were left in the house when they moved in the spring of 1971, they are thought to date from the 1940s or possibly the 1930s. The base is made up of a die cast metal, and the handset is made up of a very hard dense plastic, possibly bakelite or whatever they had back then. And yes they still work, though they told me they don't use them very often.
@Janotes
3 жыл бұрын
@@h0tel1 "Carter Phone" really paved the way for "Crap phones"
@PeopleAlreadyDidThis
3 жыл бұрын
In 1960, you simply could not buy your own phone. They weren’t sold, period.
@drh4683
12 жыл бұрын
Another great piece of American history here. However, this video must be from at least 1959 as there was a '59 Pontiac stopped at the intersection at 0:18
@LMacNeill
7 жыл бұрын
drh4683 Or late '58, possibly -- '59 models were released in September of '58, give or take a bit. But definitely no earlier than that.
@RJSchex
5 жыл бұрын
Also, at 10:15 is a "Princess" phone-which debuted in 1959.
@RJSchex
5 жыл бұрын
Actually, I've narrowed it down more. The Bell System map at 21:14 depicts Pacific Tel. Northwest ("Pacific Northwest Bell"), which was formed in 1961.
@americanspirit8932
2 жыл бұрын
The awards or where only operators would sit, or replaced by a system called traffic service position systems, tsps. What we call a cog would be like, a bicycle wheel with spokes going out, the main central office for the tsps, wood Branch out off each spoke, and at the end of each spoke there would be a tsps system with 64 operators, each position had two operators sitting down with separate controls switches buttons, it was a lot more efficient it was all done electronically, but it eliminated thousands and thousands of operators. This was all Electronics digitally controlled. I was fortunate enough to be trained on that system, I was also trained on, what we call number one ESS, electronic switching system. These were the first electronic switch systems to be installed throughout the nation. Along with that I was trained on, ETS electronic translator systems, they would be controlling the T1 carrier systems electronically. Also trained on number four ESS, which is the first electronic digital system. The last system that I was trained on, was number five, ESS, this was a digital fiber optic switching system, still in use today. Instead of talking over a copper wire you were talking over a fiber optic. My education is priceless. You couldn't go to college to learn the stuff it was all classified and proprietary. The later systems number one and then number five ESS, used Unix as their operating system. Prior to that number one ss use the combination of, Fortran and Cobalt, hybrid. Prior to that it was all Electro mechanical crossbar and before that stepper, and before that 100% manual. We would see like on Lassie cranking the phone saying Emma connect me to Mr Smith. That was 100% manual back in those days. I had a total of 36 years service. I calculated all the hours that I spent in communication School through the company, it would be equivalent to about 17 years of regular College. All our schools were six days a week 8 hours a day, months and months at a time, schools were spread out in various parts of the country, also went to various engineering schools, within the company in Oklahoma City, King of Prussia, Minneapolis Minnesota, just the name of you. I lived in New York at that time, on Long Island.
@BigEightiesNewWave
4 жыл бұрын
operator get me Hootersville !
@Dr.Pepper001
4 жыл бұрын
Oliver, is that you, dahling?
@junkdeal
3 жыл бұрын
@@Dr.Pepper001 Pixley has an airport?! No...Than how am I gonna fly out of Pixley?!! You could buy an airplane!!! OH FOR PETE'S SAKE!!!!!
@MrWolfTickets
3 жыл бұрын
25:26 WOAH!! I haven't ever seen this push-button prototype!!
@misterwhipple2870
Жыл бұрын
They started developing Touch-Tone in the late 1940s. It took a long time to get it right (15 years) and even longer to integrate into the whole Bell System.
@lestersabados1306
2 жыл бұрын
All of them are now obsolete. If I'm not mistaken, there are no more analog switches. Remember the bell system vans. All gone.
@MaximRecoil
2 жыл бұрын
25:25 - I wish they would have kept the model 500 shell that they used for their touch-tone prototypes, when they went into production. The 500 shell is the best looking and most iconic desk phone in history IMO; it is _way_ better looking than the boxy 2500 shell. Also, they should have used the 554 shell and guts for the touch-tone wall phone. Instead, they went with the tiny, internally cramped 2554 which didn't even have room for a dual-gong ringer, so they crammed the crappy single-gong Trimline ringer in there. Northern Electric knew better though, and made what they called the 3554, which did in fact use the iconic 554 shell and guts. ITT made a 3554 too.
@mistergrandpasbakery9941
4 жыл бұрын
I would love to put my electronics degree to work for this KZitem channel!!!!
@jkvelasquez84
2 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite videos.
@josephgaviota
4 ай бұрын
12:16 Ah, the Linotype machine ... I haven't worked on them since 1976.
@Elodea
4 жыл бұрын
The super imposed title at the beginning reads "1950" but there there is a scene with a 1960 Cadillac. Not a big deal as it's still an interesting film.
@joaodasilva8008
4 жыл бұрын
I like the way they talk on this documentary
@HenryBloggit
5 ай бұрын
This wasn’t even that long ago and it looks like a different planet.
@Telecolor-in3cl
4 ай бұрын
I can only agree to that. People are forgetting...
@donl1410
2 жыл бұрын
9:09. Isn't that Sgt Phil Esterhaus from Hill Street Blues? "Let's be careful out there".
@jaymeade9898
Жыл бұрын
I too thought it was Michael Conrad, but I’ve seen pictures of him in that era, and the person in the film looks different. Whoever he is, it’s definitely a familiar face.
@milfordcivic6755
8 ай бұрын
I wish they still built affordable new starter homes in nice neighborhoods.
@BK-uf6qr
7 ай бұрын
What a wonderful time it was I’m sure. Now, we can talk or text anytime we want. It exposes the a human truth however. When things are to easy they are not appreciated. Distance makes the heart grow fonder. A call back then meant more. More emotional I’m sure. Communication was valued more. Somehow with more technology people seem to grow apart under the false belief we are closer through tech. No one writes letters anymore. People don’t call each other more except for a select group possibly. Being unavailable/unreachable gave value to communication. People back then used to congregate more, face to face. Neighbors knew each other. People helped people. Today, it seems we are more isolated despite increased technology. Maybe we are more isolated BECAUSE of technology. I have an affinity for the olden times. Simpler times. People seemed more honorable. People had values. People NEEDED people to get through life. Relationships were closer buttressed by the needs of life.
@geoben1810
4 жыл бұрын
I remember when it was a big deal to have your own phone in the the house.
@parteibonza
4 жыл бұрын
Partyline was big shit when I was growing up.
@ronireland6601
3 жыл бұрын
I remember my grandparents getting their phone installed and when my mom got us a phone line installed talking to the phone man asking questions about the type of work he did and my Fascinatione as a kid Experimenting with batteries motors lights Becoming an electrician going to an apprenticeship now be in a wireman I don't install telephones but I have around a lot of phone wire in the home said I have lived in a terminated the connections my license allows me to do that they have the experience and I think the men that I spoke with as a kid about the work they did and why they did the work they did!
@Janotes
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah when Ralph Kramden got his Phone, Ed Norton ran down to congratulate him...
@cblizz730
8 ай бұрын
To think 40 years ago from when this film was recorded they didn't even have electricity or running water.
@jeaniechowdhury6739
4 жыл бұрын
Love it. I ant to go back there for one year. No cell phones. No coved 19
@kathleenking47
Жыл бұрын
We had lots OF PAY PHONES LOCAL CALLS WERE A DIME THEN TV, wasn't pretty bad, neither was radio
@DanaTheInsane
Жыл бұрын
Now nobody wants a phone book and I have not seen a working payphone in years.
@friendofdorothy9376
Жыл бұрын
Those experimental touch-tone buttons shown where so large and clunky looking when pressed.
@bob4analog
4 жыл бұрын
8:14 "you can call anywhere in the world if you want to." Yup, we had the technology even back then.
@kathleenking47
Жыл бұрын
Through the IOC (international operator central) USSR was one of the last, to get country code of 7...then, in small areas of the world You had to go through 3 or more
@misterwhipple2870
Жыл бұрын
@@kathleenking47 Can you imagine what the old man would do to you if a call to Russia showed up on the bill?
@mharris5047
8 ай бұрын
@@misterwhipple2870 That would be a problem even today. Calls to third world countries cost big bucks!
@misterwhipple2870
8 ай бұрын
@@mharris5047 One thing I forgot to mention at the time was that if you DID call Russia, the FBI would show up and say "Hey! Which one of you in this house called Russia? Who did you call, and what the F*&*#k were you talking about?"
@stevejohnson1321
5 жыл бұрын
Today if you can get wired phone, you'll have to wait 20 to 30 days if you need repair service.
@inkyguy
4 жыл бұрын
Steve Johnson, despite a legal obligation to maintain their wired networks, it is obvious that the various telephone companies are divesting from their wired infrastructure by neglecting it and providing poor service to force people to migrate to cellular and cable or Internet service.
@stevejohnson1321
4 жыл бұрын
I do have prepaid cellular, which is far cheaper with more features. Unfortunately it's not always-on like plain-old telephone. More of us would remained customers if the service was maintained.
@mharris5047
8 ай бұрын
You must have Frontier service. My phone service has gone down twice in the past 6-7 years. I had to wait two weeks to get it repaired and the fault was on Frontier maintained equipment.
@stevejohnson1321
8 ай бұрын
Actually verizon in the northeast. In the four years since I posted, any service is done by subcontractors. Most wired phone companies are pretty horrible, driving residents to cellular or cable telephone. Though cellular is taking over the cities and suburban areas, it's not so good out here in the woods. I used to see a telephone truck in the neighborhood every day. That's no longer happening.
@blueshells50
Жыл бұрын
The telephone numbers with names and numbers are super confusing
@Phil-y8c
4 ай бұрын
Nice video
@jeffgarrett4533
3 жыл бұрын
Business the way it used to be you always had someone to contact and speak to. I miss these days it was better much better. The Bell system truly was the only monopoly that did in fact provide this kind of service we broke it up and look what we have now ...sheesh
@johnorlitta
25 күн бұрын
Telephone almost replaced the other two forms of communication, telegraph and tell a woman
@josephgaviota
4 ай бұрын
14:25 "Houses run $20-$25,000 dollars ... Must have been a pretty swanky housing development! My folks bought their 3-bedroom 2-bath house in a suburb of Los Angeles for $16,000 in the mid '50s.
@WSNO
5 жыл бұрын
Early 1960s, 5:40 has a 1962 or 63 Cadillac
@zelphx
4 жыл бұрын
You're right... a '60 model! Maybe that was filmed in '59, upon their introduction.
@guyosburn5693
4 жыл бұрын
Channel 69 WSNO I didn’t hire on until 1972 but those were still great days for ‘The Phone Company’. Back then, we were given time to chat with the customer and to make sure they received exactly what they wanted. Today everything is rush rush rush! Customer be damned! Those really were better times.
@c0t0d0s7
2 жыл бұрын
10:15 Two beds in the master bedroom? Is one for the mailman?
@xeero24
Жыл бұрын
Nope. It was a husband and wife who wanted a good nights sleep.
@mharris5047
8 ай бұрын
In this era it was considered unacceptable to even allude to two people sleeping in the same bed in movies or on television, even if married to each other. That was taking being prudish way too far IMO.
@zelphx
2 жыл бұрын
That supervisor is awfully familiar... I am sure he has had many roles on TV.
@jkvelasquez84
Жыл бұрын
The skulls of the folks in this video would literally explode if they saw what was coming post-COVID for technology.
@edwinkaris9602
2 жыл бұрын
very educational..
@jmulnick
4 ай бұрын
Ugh! Those phones are attached to WALLS!! 😫
@jaymeade9898
Жыл бұрын
The service supervisor looks familiar. Does anyone know who he is?
@maxdutiel
2 жыл бұрын
3:56 possibly the Owen Murphy lady from New York telephone intercept recordings.
@JensSchraeder
Жыл бұрын
What a great time in history
@chukchee
4 жыл бұрын
I also have a lot to learn...
@parteibonza
4 жыл бұрын
@11:44 I also have a lot to learn...
@syferdet
7 ай бұрын
25:17 I think there are better ways from keeping your teenagers from monopolizing the phone than this.
@GmanMilli
4 жыл бұрын
6:30 I guess John Gardner the monster wasn't even born yet.
@libertyann439
4 жыл бұрын
I had a phone just like Mrs. Gardner's!
@melaniexoxo
2 жыл бұрын
Service to the community? Unheard of these days.
@lestersabados1306
2 жыл бұрын
A young man asked me how they texted on dial rotary telephones!!!
@nscaledelights
3 жыл бұрын
"Operator connect me to Klondike-570 please"
@W1RMD
11 ай бұрын
Shout out to "the greatest generation"!
@peltel2222
2 жыл бұрын
This is a European approach to Democracy and civilization. Many other groups do not, and have not ever strived to have such calm, respectful striving people. All working for one goal. To better everyone's lives around them. High moral standards. Along with the prevalent tendency to create rather than destroy. These days appear to have been all but overtaken by other groups who have been welcomed into the great European experiment on Democracy called America. Lets hope these days return. If not, we are in for a very rough ride my fellow Americans!
@DyoKasparov
3 жыл бұрын
i want to live at that time
@DarthElk
3 жыл бұрын
"The number is WRight 5-6240." "RIght 5-6240. Thank you." And that's how Mrs. Smith got the wrong number for Wilson's Meat Market.
@PeopleAlreadyDidThis
3 жыл бұрын
Such an instance would have been unlikely in practice. Exchange names were chosen for their uniqueness and intelligibility. People knew they’d be names or descriptive terms. Anyone who lived in a town for a week would already know the exchanges, and it was a simple matter to browse the phone book to learn them. I knew the local exchange names before I was ten, probably earlier. The Bell System published extensive lists of suggested exchange names. Names were intended to reduce confusion among similar exchange numbers. It was simpler to remember TUlip-2, TErminal-5, and ULysses-2 where I grew up than 882, 835, and 855. People weren’t as inundated with numbers then. Words were good, they added interest, and they also identified the exchanges’ geographical areas; ULysses was downtown, TErminal in the south of town. There was a character that is now lost.
@kathleenking47
Жыл бұрын
They got rid of WRight..numbers in 1966..the same year Zone Improvement Plan codes went in ZIP CODES
@laureanoarantesnetto8175
Жыл бұрын
At& t Bell system and Western Eletric one groupe ?
@pressureworks
4 жыл бұрын
Looking for the Mst3k or Rifftrax version.
@ShaiLysk
4 жыл бұрын
its so strange to see a human have to take input from a computer and then give it back to a computer. Good thing technology illuminated the redundant switch board operator job.
@kathleenking47
Жыл бұрын
We had TSPS and dialed overseas Not every prefix could dial overseas until later...with SMARTPHONES
@misterwhipple2870
Жыл бұрын
One thing about those days - everybody dressed well, and by God, the women looked like W O M E N ! ! !
@BBC600
12 жыл бұрын
200 Veiws This Deserves at least 300!
@CaptchaNeon
4 жыл бұрын
BBC600 It now has 26,000 and counting
@riphihe
4 жыл бұрын
@@CaptchaNeon May 7 2012 -2013 = 300 views last 3 weeks it has increased by 2000 views today March 6 2020 = 28,865 views
@AL-uv4tg
4 жыл бұрын
If only they knew.
@lloydtshare
3 жыл бұрын
OMG I can have telephone on the terrace
@parteibonza
4 жыл бұрын
today they are such crooks...one time we paid them to do a site survey to bring service to a building. they told us to pay them 5 thousand dollars for the survey. They never did anything but send a guy out to look at it. Then they sent us the survey results but it was only a few paragraphs of excuses and their resolution was for us to hire a contractor to string a line to a corner of our bulding ourselves. They kept the 5 thousand dollars. I like just calling them up and complaining day after day and keep hammering their customer service department. Eventually they get tired of it and just get someone to do it. The American Way now, sadly.
@laureanoarantesnetto8175
Жыл бұрын
Here Vila Remo neighboard São Paulo city Brazil South América 😊😊😊😊
@caidhg
3 жыл бұрын
21:40 apparently Mexico didn't exist in the 50s
@alwayswondering4051
4 жыл бұрын
Somebody should get pictures of the telephone poles that line the streets. They'll be a remnant all too soon.
@jfbeam
4 жыл бұрын
Negative. Power, cable, and various fibre services hang from those poles. Copper telco services may eventually go extinct, but those poles are going to be around for many more decades.
@arthurharrison1345
3 жыл бұрын
That's not likely.
@c0t0d0s7
2 жыл бұрын
I believe utilities own a large number of poles in the U.S.
@hebneh
4 жыл бұрын
I knew there’d be a bunch of comments here of how wonderful and wholesome and perfect the USA used to be, as if this movie was real life.
@Pentapus1024
3 жыл бұрын
@hebneh Things weren't as pure and wholesome as depicted in old films, but it was far more so than today. I'm a child of the 80s/90s and have seen how grotesque things have gotten in my little lifetime. The fabric of society is threadbare, and the scattered individuals aware that the era they're fated to live through is one of decomposition get misty-eyed thinking of how things used to be.
@videodistro
3 жыл бұрын
... says someone who was never there. It was much more "perfect" than today's crap existence. There WAS more care and concern back then.
@hebneh
3 жыл бұрын
@@videodistro Except I was there, fool. I'm an old man now.
@misterwhipple2870
Жыл бұрын
@@hebneh I agree. My mother was there, and she said the very best time in the history of the whole country was from 1946 to about 1957, and then things started to slide. If I could jump through a time portal, I'd be off like a shot.
@hebneh
Жыл бұрын
@@misterwhipple2870 It was only "the very best" for a particular segment of society. Any one else could be - and was - legally discriminated against. Secondhand cigarette smoke everywhere, including airplanes; cars with zero safety equipment that killed huge numbers of people annually; non-existent environmental controls that meant coal miners and asbestos workers were permanently maimed and killed...these were the downsides of what appears to be a golden age when you look at old movies.
@danam2584
4 ай бұрын
This video is so cool to watch. Wouldn't it be nice to experience it?.........Don't worry MYTOWN. In the late 60's rail passenger service will be discontinued. The early 70's most of the small agricultural business like wool, daries and such will go away because of synthetic fabrics and Government regulations'. The mid to late 70's most of your factories would be closed and sent to Japan. Half of the people would leave for jobs in the larger cities. The graduating kids will not stick around. By the 2000's the rest of the factories will be sent to China. Most of the small businesses will close because the owners are all retiring and no one wants to buy their businesses. All that is left in town is a Casey's, and a grain elevator. But don't worry the future will be bright. Sooooo sad. I think I need a hug.
@davidcrackerfeller530
7 жыл бұрын
white people yes i love it
@sillygoose635
4 жыл бұрын
@B. Allen *black/native ammericans
@nyccontrabass3489
4 жыл бұрын
Yep, nothing has changed. Still a racist country.
@nyccontrabass3489
4 жыл бұрын
To be honest, I am a teacher and my black students are no different than my white students except for their motivation and attitude. It’s quite amazing to me how they complain less and complete more assignments. Fact is that repression and racism breeds crime and leads you to your statement. Want less crime? Treat them like equals. Some of the students stories are amazing. Most of them say that their relatives feel like there is no hope for the future and that leads them to not care about anything. Love thy neighbor and treat others how you want to be treated.
@Dr.Pepper001
4 жыл бұрын
@j drayton -- We'd do it again. Can't stop progress. Those millions coming over from Europe had to go somewhere. Stop complaining.
@TheJ602
3 жыл бұрын
@@nyccontrabass3489 let’s be honest you made that up.
@Andrew_Sparrow
12 жыл бұрын
4:05 what does right mean?
@TheLCPI
7 жыл бұрын
74
@marcfield1234
6 жыл бұрын
There was a time when the phone number started with the central office name. This would be the Wright in Wright 5. So the number would be WR5 -6240.
@robertcuminale1212
5 жыл бұрын
@@marcfield1234 Those numbers usually identified a place. As a boy I lived near the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. The phone exchanges in that area were EVergreen, HYacinth and IVy. My grandmother lived a block away and was in a different central office on Glenmore Avenue in Queens. She had a GLenmore number. You could tell where a person lived then not like today with number portability.
@mikepeterson764
5 жыл бұрын
Exchange name. Ours was BLackburn7.
@almostfm
5 жыл бұрын
@@mikepeterson764 Ours was REdwood.
@melon5111
2 жыл бұрын
Thank god I did not have to live through this era
@603Madison
3 жыл бұрын
You can tell this video is old given the many examples of sexism within it. Other than that, it's pretty cool to see antique technology at work.
@workingmanpatriot8760
3 жыл бұрын
Thryve had us on the hook since 1942 came thru my my folks hood. My grandfather thot it a fad....
@MikeDBrnchBannks-eh1ni
7 ай бұрын
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@jakemcconnell1776
3 жыл бұрын
@8:37 I my boss ever called me "boy" we would be having words.
@jaylockwood5030
5 жыл бұрын
all those workers are dead
@hankaustin7091
5 жыл бұрын
so? what's that got to do with anything?
@jgrysiak6566
5 жыл бұрын
#5 Crossbar town
@jpolar394
4 жыл бұрын
You will be one day too.
@sabrinan4792
4 жыл бұрын
RIP Ren. Every time I see a 'Vette I think of you...and when I see someone on a telephone pole, which is rare. This reminds me of the stories you told me. Lol.
@InderpalSingh280ludhiana
8 ай бұрын
📞 ☎️
@zelphx
4 жыл бұрын
"1950"... nuh-uh.
@hankaustin7091
5 жыл бұрын
8:33 "how's it going boy?" the guy he's addressing sure doesn't look black to me!
@dariusanderton3760
4 жыл бұрын
yeah I know. The lefties have twisted that phrase to only be considered an insult used on black people, whereas back then it was also a form of address used between people of different ages. If a girl or young woman was being addresses they would say Miss.
@PeopleAlreadyDidThis
3 жыл бұрын
I can’t count the times I was addressed by strangers as “boy” or “son.” It was a mannerism of the time.
@davidl9232
4 жыл бұрын
Many had the same problems at first we got hit with as when the smartphone. Only now they admit, its NOT paranoia, to admit your privacy, and exploitation thereof, being violated. Generations before the Millennials, no one was willing to accept, never mind admit, people were exploiting phone operator's, bugs, and blackmail from it. Men had the mistaken idea that such wouldn't happen due of being the good guys in the war, or, when you ain't guilty you got nuttin to hide, or , everybody knows me in this town..no one would dare, thinking. Damn were parents naive. And demanding their kids think the same was setting their kids up for disasters. Organized crime has never given a blinking eye about what your parents taught you about law and courtesy. Good luck.
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