This feels like a true artifact from the Bicentennial. This was a promotional paper produced by the regional phone company at the time. I think they were still called Mountain Bell then. It’s got some really interesting historical information about the phone system in New Mexico. The paper reproduced here isn’t yellow with age. It was actually printed on tan parchment. Scanning this was also a nightmare. I did the best I could with it.
A salesman tried to sell telephones to a county government in New Mexico. "They believed the new invention could be of little use to them since it couldn't speak Spanish."
Check out the cabling going into the window here for the original Las Cruces phone office.
Read these two stories about a couple of heroic operators.
Here's why they used women operators. They wanted a "Voice with a smile." "Girls are steadier than boys and they don't drink beer."
Line maintenance was not a glamorous job.
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