Posted 18 days ago
earthandma…
(109 items)
02/27/2025
The Texas Telephone Company 5 Year Pin. I have seen a 1 year pin, a 2 year pin, 10, 15, and 20 years pins. This company started out of Waco, Texas, and I saw some service territory going as far north as Sherman, Texas.
I don't know much about the company, but I have a better understanding of how the telephone business spread throughout Texas. There were literally hundreds of telephone companies in the Lone Star State. (like the Pearl Telephone Company:
Dallas - Dallas Telephone Company
Waco - The Texas Telephone Company
Brownwood - West Texas Telephone Company
Tyler - Gulf States Telephone Company
However, most of Texas was covered by The Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company, and Southwestern Associated Telephone. I know of a few others, but I will post later because Texas is a really big state. Some others I am looking into:
San Angelo Telephone Company
Conroe Telephone Company
Alto Telephone Company
The Brazoria Telephone Company
Nice one, I like the shield
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Not all independents used the shield, but unless it had something to do with money, then I am not sure why. The long story summarized is Bell used Operators to provide service; while Independents used the Strowger Dial (the rotary dial with an electromechanical switch) with hardly any Operator involvement. Strowger later became known as Automatic Electric (AE).