Pacific Telephone and Telegraph was located in the 200 block of E Alder Street before moving to new building at First and Alder in 1936.

Big snow of 1916

The switchboard

From Up to the Times Magazine, 1908

Razed in 1967

Telephone Company switchboard in last day of operation, then abandoned for "cut-over" to dial system on March 16 1957. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Converting 22000 lines behind the switchboard