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Adolph M. Arends, LAGO Telephone Department, May 13, 1951.

Caption: "First step in the cutover was Adolph Arends pulling the main fuse: this "killed" the old exchange for the first time since it was installed about 1934."

Used in: Aruba Esso News (May 25, 1951), page 3:

Article: "Dial... ZERO-HOUR"

"Our New Exchange is Born During a  Night of Suspense

The air was tense at the new Telephone Exchange at 1:29 a.m. Sunday, May 13. Months of planning and work were going to have the acid test in the next few minutes.

Men had spend countless hours in dozens of manholes splicing thousands of wires. All the complicated and delicate machinery of a new and modern automatic telephone exchange had been installed..." (Read more...)

Caption:
Adolph M. Arends, LAGO Telephone Department

First step in the cutover was Adolph Arends pulling the main fuse: this "killed" the old exchange for the first time since it was installed about 1934.

Set: Human Interest / People at Work

Date: May 13, 1951
Photographer(s): various, Lago PR Department

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