Our Old Bookcase
The Ohio Associated Telephone Company had the Office on the second story, at the end of the hall, on the northeast corner of Main and Fayette Streets, Celina, between 1923 and 1927.
John Sealscott may have been the wire chief.
Does anyone recognize this photograph?
I remember our family telephone when I grew up at Fort Recovery. Before we had “dial-up systems” on our telephone, we would
pick up the receiver and tell the operator the phone number we were seeking. When the weather was bad, meaning the streets were covered with snow and cars were not on the street, we questioned if there would be class held at school that day. We would pick up the phone and ask the operator if there was any school that day!
When we were children, we knew to not call anyone on “longdistance” because it was “too expensive.”
At that time, we never anticipated carrying our “cell phones” with us. We did not envision taking photographs with our cell phones. We did not envision using our telephones as our computers.
I wonder what new inventions will change our way of communicating in this next decade. I wonder what kind of technical inventions will take place this coming decade.
I recall our national fear, when Russia entered the “space age.” President Kennedy addressed the future by stating that we would have a “man on the moon,” within a decade. At one time, I recall predictions of visiting the planet of Mars; I don’t hear those predictions so often any more. I have heard comments about astronauts fearing “being stranded on Mars, without any power to return to earth!”
I doubt that learning about “life on Mars,” is a part of my future. I am content to enjoy my retirement years at home. However, I do appreciate my cell phone and talking with my grandsons across the United States.