[GreenKeys] What is to become of NADCOMM?

[Don Robert House]

Thanks for the compliment Paul.  I had contacted the wire chief in 
charge of the Chicago Dearborn Telegraph Testboard when all five 
positions were still in and working in 1998.  Sadly he was 
transferred and the new manager had the whole thing scrapped. Strip 
printers, 911 test sets, Oak cord boards and all.  The same thing 
happened late last year here in Los Angeles.

The Telephone Pioneers Museum in Seattle is a fantastic museum.  They 
have an example of every telephone switch.  USWest wanted to close it 
but the commerce commission saved it.  They even have a working panel 
office, the only one in the world.  Just imagine rods and elevator 
type contacts eleven feet tall.

You can click on a link on our site to go to: Vintage Telephone 
Museum or go directly to:

http://www.scn.org/tech/telmuseum/

Don

You wrote:

>I tried to give an entire wire chief's office from the PRR station in
>Baltimore to the Smithsonian.  There were totally uninterested.  It ended up
>going to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania where they pulled a "lost ark"
>with it.
>
>I hate to say it but I have little hope for "mainstream" museums.  They have
>their agendas and there is little room for technical artifacts.  There, of
>course, are a few exceptions.  The Telephone Pioneers museum in Seattle is
>spectacular from what I've been told and there is another telephone museum
>in Maine that deals in CO equipment and such.  It's really up to the private
>collector with a "vision" such as Don, to do it right.
>
>PDW
>

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