Comments by "steve94044" (@steve94044) on "How Pacific Bell Prepared for West Coast Earthquakes - ATu0026T Archives" video.

  1. My favorite parts of the video are of the test board and plant service center. These were the days before it all went automated. It was a very personable company back in the late 70’s. The work was hard. Maybe harder than today. Still good memories when I was a residence installer in the late 70’s. I’m still employed now by what Pacific Telephone became. I now work at AT&T Labs.
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  2. I had a UHF 2 way radio in my dodge phone truck in 1979. We had a touch tone pad connected to the transmitter and could make radiotelephone calls with it.
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  3. Very timely video in the Summer of 2019 too! I first saw this video on a Betamax tape in my local garage at Pacific Bell. It was the summer of 1980. My phone truck was a gutless green dodge van with a 3 speed manual transmission on the steering wheel. It was some of the best times of my life!
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  4. Yes in 1984 at divestiture. Was an employee at that time and experienced divestiture. I’m still working at now at&t. Over 40 years of service. It’s still a great company. I have very fond memories of my time during the days of the Bell System. I now work as a 9-1-1 engineer testing the latest 9-1-1 systems that go into the police and fire stations across the US.
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  5. I remember watching this video at my garage when I was a residence installer for Pacific Telephone in Mountain View, Calif. we watched it on a Sony betamax video tape player ;)
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  6. In the Pacific Bell Days Corporate Television made a lot of video's. Will any of those be made available in the future?
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  7.  @Jbk0860  I’m retiring soon after 41 years working at the co. This time I think for good. It’s a very different company now from the Pacific Telephone days. Still it’s holding out and still going strong.
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  8. Check out Brian Hackney’s Earthquake docs of Calif. They are excellent too! Made at Channel 5 and Channel 4 in San Francisco.
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  9.  @Jbk0860  hi James.there is remnants of the old bell system all over. One of the large At&t centers in Sacramento still have the old bell system logo on the entrance to the building on Marconi Ave.
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  10. @Fritz Donnerschlag keep listening. Your bell is about to ring ;)
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  11. The good ole days of the test board and the LAC and the local Plant Service Center :)
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  12. They played this video to us installers with pacific telephone in the 1970s it’s relevant today in 2023 like it was then. It’s good to be prepared. Keep flashlights, a generator. Food for 2 to 4 weeks. Just in case. You never know. This video was way before the 1989 quake in loma prieta ca. please be prepared.
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