Nice Telephone Museum in NH

[kyeho]

I found it the other day in Warner NH, worth checking out if you live in the area:

http://www.nhtelephonemuseum.com/

[Zazen]

This educational resource will take you back to the days when people... listened to other peoples’ conversations on party lines.

[rbcp]

This educational resource will take you back to the days when people... listened to other peoples’ conversations on party lines.

Guess we're keeping that aspect of the olden days intact.

We've got a telephone museum near where I live, in Brownsville, Oregon.  I took a few pictures, which are here.  The coolest telephone museum I've ever been to is the one in Abilene, Kansas.  They had an old step-by-step switch there that you could make phone calls on as you watched it connect your call.  It's a huge museum with a lame website that I won't bother linking to.

[murd0c]

That telephone museum in Abilene is fucking awesome. Despite the fact I drove around 30 minutes looking for it off I-70.

There's another one in Lincoln Nebraska I plan on visiting one of these days.

[Zazen]

They had an old step-by-step switch there that you could make phone calls on as you watched it connect your call.

That sounds really cool. Apparently this New Hampshire museum has one too:

http://www.nhtelephonemuseum.com/about.html

dial a telephone to see a 9-foot-tall stepping switch in action