#Switchboard

[thunderstruck9]

Edward Wadsworth (British, 1889-1949), Number Please!, 1942. Tempera on paper, 12 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.

[markgatissbirthdayproject]

Hello!!!!! It is time to think about the Mark Gatiss birthday drive for 2024! Mark’s birthday is 17 October and I’m excited to see how much money we can raise this year! Last year we raised £500 for Switchboard.

To start, we will once again be having an auction for fan works and goods. If you’d like to donate a fic or an item please email mgbdaydrive at gmail dot com.

Requests for donations will end at the end of the month and the auction will go live on the first of October.

If you have questions or anything at all, please let me know.

[scavengedluxury]

Post and Telegraph Office Switchgear on display at the Millennium Exhibition, Budapest, 1896. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[vizreef]

Cute little Radio Station Switchboard (Finland, 1990s)

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[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C&P Telephone) Photograph Collection. 1954

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Trypophobia

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Before telephone trees, there were real live human beings who answered calls and actually tried to help. This 1923 photo is captioned, "The big switchboard in the Grand Central Terminal Information Bureau. William P. Walsh, Manager, is at the desk to the right. Courtesy and helpfulness are the watchwords of the Bureau."

Source: NY Central Lines Magazine via Wikimedia Commons

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

1935 technology

[dinosaurwithablog]

There was an art to being a switchboard operator. They were some of the best multi taskers ever. They connected every call that came into a business manually. It was fascinating to watch them work. Another lost art. Alas and alack

[raph-stims]

Mackenzie, you know what's here now, you don't need to keep coming back to this place.

gif one: a pale hand flipping read covers and then metallic, rounded switches which, in turn, turned on a light showing that whatever the switches being flipped, enabled or turned something on

gif two: a point of view shot in a car driving in a tunnel and coming out the other end, with light flooding into the tunnel

gif three: the helmet of an astronaut diving towards the earth

gif four: a feminine looking white person in a large pool tube going down a waterslide. the slides cover lights up in red, blue, yellow, and white lights.

image: Mackenzie, a black and white border collie from the show Bluey. there is purple yarn tied around his waist and he is midfall, standing on one foot and both of his legs are in the air.

gif five: a white person sliding down a water slide, the slide tube cover lights up in blue and white lights for a bit, goes dark and then lights up in blue stars.

gif six: a point of view shot in a space station pointing at the earth, filled with clouds

gif seven: a point of view shot inside a car, where the car is driving through a tunnel, then coming out the other end, where you can see a purple sky sunset

gif eight: a white hand spinning some kind of white handled bit on a space station switchboard. the hand spins the bit and it spins so hard it starts to float off the board.

[moominmammaonheroin]

She would’ve loved the new 15th Tardis design

[markgatissbirthdayproject]

Coming soon . . . . 👀

[sqb]

[ayquebella]

Vintage Old Time Retro Nostalgic Touch-Tone Telephone Push Button Corded Landline Phone Charm Pendant

Soooo cute, sterling silver charm of a retro push-button telephone! This wonderful charm is of a old timey telephone from a bygone era. The push-button telephone has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, which was much more modern than rotary phones. This terrific sterling silver charm with a layer of oxidized silver is so very adorable and will look terrific on your favorite charm bracelet or necklace!

[taperwolf]

My city's downtown has a big old building that used to house all the AT&T stuff. When I first came to town, I got a job taking phone orders for a mail-order company that sells holiday gifts, food baskets and suchlike. Internet shopping didn't exist then, so from November through December they had rented out a couple of floors of the building to set up phones and old IBM terminals for the seasonal employees to enter in the nonstop phone orders.

Down on the first floor, near windows that looked out on the street, they used to have a sort of mini-museum display of old switchboards. And the other day I discovered that while whoever now owns the building has taken down the signs, the switchboards are still there.

(This is the best shot I could get at the time; I had to block the reflections with my body and a tote bag to see past the glass at all.)

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C&P Telephone) Photograph Collection. 1954