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City's 3,000th Telephone | Installed Away Back In '24 What was the telephone like|toll service the Oshawa operator|is a device which permits a back in 1924, the year Oshawa/could connect the call directly.| wide range of intercommunica- was incorporated? Well it wasn't dial-- the Bell Telephone's first dial exchange' ,""Grover" was opened that, year 'in Toronto, But Oshawa's 3000th telephone was installed that 'year -- a far ery from today's '30,900 but a big jump from the 95 at the turn of the century. * It was also the year the Bell -began~ construction of a new *building which went into service 'the following year with enough sequipment to serve 5,600 tele. 'phones, Located on Victoria street, the cost was set at $130,- , According to ¥ W. Lowry, the *Bell's jocal manager, the *"erank"" telephone had been re- splaced by the common battery five-minute, conversation to someone in the three com- munities cost 10 cents, "Today customers can call any telephone' in the Bowman- ville, Brooklin, Hampton and Whitby exchanges free of long distance charges," said the Bell manager, 'and this summer toll-free calling between Oshawa and Ajax-Pickering will be in- troduced," FIRST STEPS Ss ing of the ever-expand- ing facilities being installed in Oshawa, Mr, Lowry said that at the same time as equipment is being installed to make the Oshawa to Ajax-Pickering call- ing possible, 2000 additional ter- |tion features, including inter- jcom throughout the home, As) \well as being connected into the regular telephone network for} normal calling the homeowner can answer the door from any} room in the house equipped with a "'station". Its commercial counterpart) 'Business Interphone'"' was in-| troduced last spring and has proved popular in providing | \both intér-office communication! and regular telephone service. The compact unit connects you with someone down the hall at the touch of a button as well asig making possible hands-free an. swering. A conference between offices can be held without leav- ! Mit, : WALTER JUSTYNSKI BOB ANDREWS MR. JOHN FOLEY o THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridev- February 28, 1964 39 Meet the Key Personnel... 'system in 1917, Then you had|minals to provide for futurejing your desk as a number of 'only to lift the receiver and an|8rowth are being installed. This|the units can be interconnected. | operator came on the line, Dial|@ddition he said would be suf-) Another Bell service is Tele- "telephone service was intro-/fcient to meet the anticipates wcrigh. whereby hand written) duced in April, 1951, with the demand for telephone service in! jassaves are transmitted over! 'completion of the new building|this area during the next feW\the regular telephone network to| on Bond and Victoria streets, [years. la receiver. It is reproduced| The yt tune 74 {jexactly as it was originally writ As ieaon : Por' , Say that some $54,000 would belten, Using an electronic pen al Pd ge rly 1 aaee precio! spent this spring installing] person simply writes on a roll 'reported a long distance call pndereround canee 1 ore the|of paper and at the other end from Oshawa to Topeka, Kan- north end of the oe €X-/another pen follows instructions sas only took 15 minutes to go ooregott ag Bebb hin marl of/to the letter. -through, something of a record| tne : sh ae ae ton 'All and all,"' said Mr. Lowry, 'in those days since it was NOF-|stroat tt Mar fhe tol We expect that by 1970 more 'mally an hour's wait. Quite) Roccand ed. Thi 'wil 1 ¢ (data (machines talking to ma- sce gb ne 4u8-| chines). will be carried over the 'a diffrence from today when teti : ment the existing feeder cable} : 'an operator puts your call| which is running close to telephone network than voice 5 odbaayeePh = 4 posing ee capacity as a result of the | Communication, be too many years before Osh.|stowsh that has' taken place MANY CA 'awa customers 'will be dialing|°Ve the past few years. Mr.| More than 20,000 cases were 'their own long distance calls|"OWtY Said the bulk of the city's! deliberated by Ontario County} orem Direct Distance Dialing ig| expansion during the balance of Magistrate's Courts during 1963, | 2 8 introduced. The connection time| this decade, will be north o| jan increase of some 3,000 cases GAILE HITCHENS i Rossland jover the 1962 figure. Secretory will even be : | Many changes introduced in} Revealing these statistics Out-of-town Project Supervisor Industrial Superintendent General Manager SMALL ITEM HANK THOMAS Estimator FRANK McDOUGAL Office Manager PLUMBING 4X0 BEATING Lr. 319 COLLEGE AVE. 723-1191-2-3-4 ED HOMES Co-ordinator BILL PEEL than at Supervisor less resent, | '4 One of the first steps toward|OShawa to meet telephone/yonday, Crown Attorney Bruce| wider local calling was taken in|USers' desires in the last few! affleck pledged himself to call] 1925 when the Bell announced|Years have been in the way of|for stiffer penalties for offend-} 'that customers would no Iongerje¢quipment improvements andjers during 1964, as a deterrent need to ask for the long dis-|Completely new equipment for|measure. tance operator when placing}both home and office Prime targets for the county's calls to Bowmanville, Brooklin| "Home Interphone" _ intro-|yolatile Crown Attorney will be| or Whitby -- through a direct|duced in Oshawa two years ago|shonlifters and break-in artists. 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