Check out these web sites for more historical information about telephones.
 

Sites Related to Telephone Service of The Past

• Tribute to the Telephone
  Very large web site with lots of information about the telephone business.
  
• Private Line
  Large web site with lots of information about telephone history and current information.
  
• Phone Trips
  Mark Bernay's web site. Contains many sound files so you can hear how the phone network used to sound.
  
• The Exchange Name Project
  A web site devoted to the old central office names used around the United States and Canada prior to the 1960s. All of the Atlanta offices are listed.
  
• Telephone World
  Lots of articles and historical information about telephone service.
  
• Strowger Page
  This web site belongs to a group in England interested in preserving the history of the Strowger Step-by-Step switching system.
  

 

Telephone Museums

• The Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum, Seattle, Washington
  This is a huge museum devoted to telephone switching equipment, telegraph, telex, and TWX equipment. They have the only remaining, working Panel and Crossbar central office machines in the world!
  
• The Telephone Museum, Ellsworth, Maine
  
• BellSouth Telephone Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
  

 

Sites About Collecting Old Telephones

• ATCA Antique Telephone Collectors Association
  
• TCI Telephone Collectors International
  

 

Atlanta History and Nostalgia

• Southside Atlanta Memories
  
• Atlanta Time Machine
  
• Georgia History Network
  

 

Other Links

• Local Calling Guide
  Here you can look up current information about rate centers, local calling areas and central offices.
  

 

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