In about 1977 or so, I worked for Southwestern Bell (the phone company)
in Kansas using one of these cordboards. That was back when you had to
call the operator to make a long distance or collect phone call. If you
ever watched and remember Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, the character
played by Lily Tomlin, Miss Tomlin of the phone company, used a very
similar setup. We had those little headsets with only 1 ear and a
microphone. It was a fun job, but BOY did we get some weird calls <LOL>
I had never heard it called a doll's-eye board before, though. Maybe the
difference in location??
Jean Nathan wrote:
Weronika wrote:
The person doing it is a telephonist or switchboard operator. I last
saw that type of switchboard in the early/mid 1960s. Called a
"doll's-eye board", because the internal numbers wanting to be
connected to an outside phone line dropped down and went up rather
like the eyes in a doll.
A small box with switches was in common use for private switchboards
inside companies by the end of the 60s.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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