Prior to her 1914 marriage, my great grandmother, Isabella Smith, worked for the telephone company in Harrisburg. This photo was labelled the “telephone girls.”
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31 May 2011 at 6:37 pm | Permalink |
My mother work for the telephone company also. She said when the girls would get goofy they’d say “Bumble Bees” instead of ‘Number Please’.