When I was growing up, '40 - '50's and for don't know how how many years
after, there electric power poles and lines along the road in front of the
house and telephone poles and lines across a field behind the house. The
telephone poles had 6 or 8 banks (cross arms) of wires on 'em. I think I
remember seeing them still in use there when visiting my mother in late
seventies, maybe later.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Herrman" <jer...@san.rr.com>
To: <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 8:36 PM
Subject: [MBZ] "Telephone" Poles
RLE wrote:
"Almost always. Highest voltage is at the top (single uninsulated
conductor)
feeding the transformers, next is transformer output serving the power
drops to the subscribers. Next is telephone and TV is on the bottom. The
poles (NOT telephone poles but utility poles) are owned by the power
company and
the dial tone and TV cable companies pay a fee for every pole they hit."
This is interesting. Were they at one time real "telephone poles", owned
and operated by the telephone company? If so, would this have been the old
familiar Bell System of 30 plus years ago?
Or did I have it wrong all these years and the power company owned the
poles? If so, how did the name "telephone pole" originate? There always
seems to be subscriber on this list who knows the answer to these obscure
questions.
As a kid (and later) I remember the phone guy climbing up the pole with
his equipment on a belt and near the top placing a leather strap like a
large belt around the pole so he could lean back and do his job.
He always had a red phone dangling from his tool belt that I understood
allowed him to call anywhere with no long distance fees. Sometimes he'd be
up there for a long time on the phone. Thinking about it now, I'll bet he
was calling his girlfriend.
Jerry
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