From the hub of the switchboard a call could be connected to any other phone within that exchange. For long distance calls the operator had to connect from one exchange to another until the call ...

Mrs. Eva Elliot, training supervisor of the telephone company ... Although employed to act as switchboard operator, Joan has since become proficient enough to take calls from Goodwill patrons ...

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE OPERATOR, AND SHE MADE REALLY GOOD MONEY, I REMEMBER, AND I ONCE RAN AN OLD TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD BACK IN 1955. I WORKED AS A RECEPTIONIST AND A SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR AT THE ...

On this day in 1930, telephone operator Louise Gipe, a heroine of the St. Francis Dam disaster, attempted suicide.