Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 26 May 91 20:33:27 GMT From: Ron Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Old Phone Museum Being Cranked Up Reply-To: Ron Message-ID: Organization: Lightning Systems, Inc. Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 400, Message 8 of 9 Lines: 25 [taken from the Sunday {Milwaukee Journal} (5/26/91)] Tomah {Old Phone Museum Being Cranked Up} Calling all phone-a-philes: Some Wisconsin telephone companies are stringing together a telephone museum in Tomah. It will be called the _Harris G. Allen Telecommunications Historical Museum_ and is intended to provide a free public tour of the last century of talking through wires. Allen, who lived from 1900 to 1988, founded the Tomah-based North-West Telecommunications Co. and is considered a pioneer in the industry. The 5,400-square-foot building for the museum is being donated by Pacific Telecom Inc., a company in Vancouver, Wash., that owns both North-West Telecommunications and Cencom Inc., which operates some local phone companies in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Ron | Lightning Systems, INC. acct069@carroll1.cc.edu | (414) 363-4282 60megs carroll1!acct069@uwm.edu | 14.4k HST/V.32bis