{"id":3664,"date":"2019-04-01T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:25:18","slug":"last-post-new-york-telephone-memento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/last-post-new-york-telephone-memento\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Telephone Memento"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is March 32nd. I just wanted to be funny to make light of an ongoing depressing situation.<\/p>\n

I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time. Took this in 2017. An acquaintance of mine had brought this in and I took a picture of it. Not sure what it is, but at the time the joke was a “Participation Trophy” before there was one.<\/p>\n

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I want to explain why I am closing the site for new stuff with this random thing. This email meant alot to me because as I had previous posted on being a slave to technology and it controlling me<\/a>, a lot of times my “signature” is never noticed, and people just write it off for the various reasons that is not worth mentioning. I barely knew this individual at the time in 2016. Names are withheld to protect the innocent…and I feel it should end on a human note, because this site was here to tell stories.<\/p>\n

I can tell that you put a lot of passion into your website. Building a website can be challenging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s all about managing content that added the challenge. This has not been a “blog” since 2014. I digress…<\/p>\n

When I was a child, we lived in Long Island, NY and my father worked for NYNEX [New York Telephone] in New York City. When my father was 18-19 years old or once he finished high school, he actually crossed picket lines during a strike and joined the company (at least how I perceived the story when I was a child). At first, he was responsible for installing phone lines in various residences throughout Queens. He was also responsible for cutting off phone lines for delinquent accounts and he had a lot of interesting stories based off of this. He also used to work on phone lines on the poles. Eventually, he worked his way up and became a foreman and then a manager before he transferred up the NH [New England Telephone]. Unfortunately, he passed away because I would love to ask him more questions about what he did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other parts of this email also mentioned he collected telephones too. Given he was a lineman, I found that interesting especially on Social media (TCI’s group, etc) where a lot of old collections seem to come from these types of folks.<\/p>\n

With that marks the end as we know it. Thanks for the ride friends, followers, lovers and haters combined.<\/p>\n

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Today is March 32nd. I just wanted to be funny to make light of an ongoing depressing situation. I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time. Took this in 2017. An acquaintance of mine had brought this in… <\/p>\n

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