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The $1.7 million building was home to the Hadley-Lehigh telephone exchange. I.R. Timlin, a company architect responsible for at least one other company building designed the structure. The...
- An Intro to My Connection
- The History of The Long Lines System
- Designed to Last
- New Discoveries and Post-Monopoly Decline
- The Impact of The Long Lines System
- For More Information
I grew up in rural Missouri between two small towns named Arrow Rock and Slater. For many, many miles all you would see on both sides of the road were fields of corn or soybeans. One thing that struck my eyes was a huge tower on one of the roads we frequented to travel to Slater — a small town of less than two thousand people. In the middle of a fi...
Throughout the hey-days of telephone and telegraph systems, wired systems were the only option. Long lines of cable connected cities together, although this system presented major issues. The first was vulnerability. Much like power lines and present above-ground cable systems, a tree limb or storm could easily knock down the cables. This isn’t a m...
During the height of the Cold War, the importance of the Long Line towers grew. Military phone calls and data were transmitted through the towers. Many towers had their base stations installed underground in shielded rooms that were tested to withstand the EMP produced by a nuclear blast. These underground stations also were equipped with the same ...
During the 1970s, technological breakthroughs eventually would spell the end for the Long Lines system. One of the new innovations was the use of fiber optics. Fiber optic lines are typically located underground, eliminating the vulnerabilities of earlier coaxial-based cable systems. Fiber optics also were much faster than coaxial-cable as fiber op...
Post-break up AT&T was not a small company for long. They eventually regained power by becoming one of the “big three” wireless (cell phone) carriers. Once again, towers (although this time connecting cell phones) have been constructed around the nation, sometimes even in rural areas. Many of the Long Line towers remain as a reminder of how far we’...
Sep 11, 2013 · It's been a year since Houston's Telephone Museum lost its home in the Heights. AT&T has moved much of the collection to the company's regional headquarters in Bellaire. The exhibit is now once...
May 12, 2019 · This particular structure was owned and maintained by the Ohio Bell Telephone Company and, at the time I photographed it in late 2018, several SBC logos and documents were still located within a nearby support building, tacked to a bulletin board.
Originally one of the seven regional holding companies formed after the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation's (AT & T) Bell System in 1983, SBC Communications Inc. has emerged in the 1990s as a national provider of local telephone services.
This Southwestern Bell Building in southeast Houston has had several additions over the years, including a third floor and a rear expansion doubling its footprint. Architectural details of the original building still remain over several windows and doors.
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Jul 6, 2017 · The largest telephone centers, all Southwestern Bell exchanges, were Houston, with 169,068 telephones; Dallas, 147,497; San Antonio, 85,323; Fort Worth, 73,566; and Austin, 34,030. Southwestern Bell had 20,000 employees in Texas at the beginning of 1947 and handled an average of 7,165,000 local and 130,000 long distance calls every day.
