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From: zawada@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul J Zawada)
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Subject: Re: Manhole Covers (was: 10-NYT and 10-NJB)
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Date: 25 Jun 90 04:05:38 GMT
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unhd!unhtel!paul@uunet.uu.net (Paul S. Sawyer):
 
> In article <9096@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E.
> Kimberlin) writes: 
 
>>I have walked in the streets of Paterson, NJ and seen manhole covers 
>>marked, "New York Bell." this, of course, is plant long since taken 
>>over by NJ Bell, but it is the physical remnants of that history and 
>>time when NYTel ran the phones in northern NJ.  
 
>>Perhaps some of our more intrepid readers would engage some vicarious
>>manhole-cover-reading.  Might be of trivial interest.  How about it?

> Throughout our campus, the manhole covers have the Bell logo and say
> "Bell System", although we own them and the cables/conduits below....
> They were installed in 1985 by the people who USED to be the Bell
> System - we figure they were just leftovers.

Back in the early 70's, when Illinois Bell provided service to
Northwest Indiana (Gary, Hammond, East Chicago), they deployed a
number of manhole covers with the Bell System logo and the initials
I.B.T.  This, of course did not leave any historical reminders when
Indiana Bell took over the service area in the mid-seventies.

Has anyone ever seen a "recycled" Bell System manhole cover?  I've
seen a few of these in West Lafayette, IN, which is served by GTE
North.  (The rest of the manhole covers have the GTE logo on them.)
The "recycled" covers have no noticeable logo, but upon closer
inspection one can see a faint Bell System logo and the name "Bell
System". It looks like the name and logo were ground off somehow.



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