A time in Long Beach history

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By Pamela Hale-Burns on June 29, 2011 2:14 PM | | Comments (0) |
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This photo was taken in 1934. It is a picture of a heavy gang working for Associated Telephone Company in Long Beach. They are left to right my brother-in-law, B.L. Brown (Brownie), the foreman Harry Courtney, Pop Summers in the white shirt, and my brother Loyd Kelley. This photo was taken during the Depression. The telephone company tried to keep from laying people off, so they gave them fewer days to work. Some would work the first of the week and some the last of the week.
The telephone company was as great place to work during the Depression and after the Depression. My husband Bill French worked there for over 30 years after he came home from World War II. It was called General Telephone Company then GTE today it is called Verizon.
I wonder what these "old timers" would think of the cellphones and iPhones we have now. How different it is today.

Submitted by Evelyn Kelley French


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