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Introduction
Welcome to "Telephone Tribute"!
This web site had
its humble beginnings in the summer of 1997 with its original creator,
David Massey. In May of 2003, David decided to focus his spare
time exclusively on his Bell
System Memorial website. David found a new owner/webmaster, George
Triant and Ron Christianson, to take
over the Telephone Tribute website. Then in 2004 George found
himself not able to put the time into this website as he had hoped so this
site once again transferred ownership. It is now owned and operated
by Bob and Sheri Stritof.
It is the purpose of this web site to pay tribute to
the telephone from a historical aspect as well
as to provide technical information,
human interest stories,
links to
other telephony related web sites, resources for
students and teachers, and other features.
These pages are maintained by
Sheri Stritof.
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What's New And What's "Cooking"
Additions, changes, and future plans for
this web site
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February 2004
This website adopted by Bob and Sheri Stritof. Right now the site is in "maintenance mode", but if anyone has anything they would like to add, please let me know via . Thanks! - Sheri
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MAY 2003
Received another payphone picture from
Anton and added it to the the
Russian section of the international page. Added a
discussion forum to the site. Added more pictures from
John Carson to the photo page.
I've been running a
poll, as most of you have probably noticed. So far the poll
results indicate that a forum would be a welcome addition
to this site. If anyone cares to make some suggestions for
possible discussion categories drop
me a line.
thanks, George
This website was "adopted" by George
Triant and Ron Christianson. The original creator of Telephone
Tribute, David Massey, decided that two websites were one too many to keep
updated and answer email from. So now David will concentrate on his
Bell System Memorial website and leave this one for Ron and George to
operate as they see fit.
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MARCH 2003
Added
information and photos of Russian payphones and telephone signals to my
International web page (thanks to a
website visitor from Russia named Anton).
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JANUARY 2003
Additional web server space was made
available which allowed me to make more files available for downloading.
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JULY,
AUGUST, SEPTEMBER
2002
Moved my files from the old domain (navyrelics.com)
to a new domain that I own (telephonetribute.com). Lots of technical
problems and challenges made things go much slower than planned. Now
if Google and Yahoo would just get their databases updated . . .
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MAY
2002
Deleted some dead links.
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JANUARY
2002
Corrected error on Telephone Trivia and
Quotes page - changed "Alexander Melvin Bell" to "Alexander
Melville Bell" (Alexander Graham Bell's father). [thank
you Brian Elliott for finding this error.]
Added "A Brief Review of
Kellogg and the Origin of Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company" to my
Historical Information
page.
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All update descriptions prior to January 2002 have been removed to keep this column of text short.
All references to the Bell System or Western Electric pages have been
removed since those files have been moved to the
Bell System Memorial
website.
A special thanks to Jake, Todd, Paul, Coen, Shawn, Steff,
Mike, and countless others for their generous contributions of image files, documents, historic information,
old advertisements of Western Electric and the Bell System, sound files, collectors items and other contributions
too numerous to list.
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