Morrisville loses country store built in 1930s, a hub with the town’s only phone

The sagging landmark on NC 54 was built by the Cotten family but hadn’t been open for 50 years and needed to come down, a ...
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Hacking a Celebrity’s Phone in the 1930s Was Actually Similar to Today

Myrna Loy was a huge movie star in the 1930s and 40s. She starred in classic films like The Thin Man (1934), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Ed Sullivan crowned her ...
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Telephone directory, territory of Hawaii : Winter 1930 / Mutual Telephone Company; inter-island & ship radio telegraph ; for the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Kauai

https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!987846~!0#focus ...
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How to Dial a Phone, circa 1930s

For all you whippersnappers out there who never had the experience, here’s a primer on how to use a rotary dial telephone. Produced by Big Brother … I mean, the telephone company … in the 1930s, the ...
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Phone lines in the Grand Canyon are being removed to improve aviation safety

A U.S. park ranger is honored for helping to remove aviation hazards from a 1930s-era installation of telephone lines in the Grand Canyon. In the mid-1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps installed a ...