Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: FVEST@ducvax.auburn.edu (Floyd Vest) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Early Pay Telephone Exhibit at Richmond Airport Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 04:41:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 21 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 237, Message 2 of 10 [23 Mar 91 07:13:00 GMT] HAMER524@ruby.vcu.edu (Robert M. Hamer) wrote: > Pay. Sta. Co., H'F'D, C.T., Patd. Feb 8, '98" (Anyone know what H'F'D > is? Could I just have read it wrong and it was M'F'D for "Manufactured"?) I suspect it was "H'F'D, C'T" or something like that ... Hartford, Connecticut, the birthplace of the payphone and the home of William Gray. The hint was contained in your own post: > The first phone was labelled "1889," and the commentary said that > telephones were 13 years old, that 200,000 phones were in use, > including one pay phone in a bank in Hartford, CT. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Floyd Vest Manager, Administrative Systems--Auburn University, Alabama USA Voice: +1 205 844 4512 BBS: +1 205 745 3989 FIDO: 1:3613/3