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64 pages. Features: Perfume and Cologne Bottles - article by Dave Cheadle; Applied Color Label (ACL) Soda Bottles, by Bryan Grapentine - long article with many great photos; Stiles Recheche Ware - A Second Look; Cleveland Pottery; Bottle Network News; Trade Card Trivia; British Bottle Bits - British Stoneware for Poisons; The Label Space - F.W. Devoe & Co., N.Y.; Staley & Zweifel Wallace, Idaho. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Features: A Selection of Label Only Bottles - lovely photos with article; Pets and Patent Medicines - many great vintage illustrations with article; Irish Whisky Bottles - photos and article; Many ads; Indy Fruit Jar Show; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - Winternational 1994; Kaukauna Klub Cheese Crocks; Commercial Packing Jars - Canton Domestic Fruit Jar; My First Outhouse Dig, by Tony Charlton. Some soiling to front cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
80 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Schramm Glass Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, 1905-1925; Jar Talk - Killer Fruit Jars; Hair Raising Stories - Tricopherous for the Hair; British Bottle Bits - Unlisted Poison Bottle - John Southerst Patent, fantastic ads for vintage machines; Great illustrated two-page ad for a Western Glass Auctions event; Extra Special Deliveries; S.L.O.B.S. - The San Louis Obisbo Bottle Society; Bottle Network News - The Pioneer Drug Store, by David Bethman; Auctions; Bottle Displays welcome new collectors; Up-Dates; Golden Gate Show; My Little Brown Jug - Charlie Horn digs up a M.& M.Co. Island City, Oregon jug; Extraordinaire - Potomac Show & Slick's Auction, including photo of Vaseline jar collection. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: Weekend "Diggins" - The Antique Bottle Collectors of North Florida, by Arlene. Caruso, Jackie McRae & Michael Skie; Tips on buying British Isles Whisky Ceramics, by Jack Sullivan; Jar Talk - Unique colored half-gallon Mason Jars, by Jack La Baume; Hair Raising Stories - "Perry's Hungarian Balm", by Don Fadely; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; Auction Directory; Polishing My Onion Bottles from the late 17th century - many photos, by David W. Barker; The Label Space - Richelieu Preserves, Meyer's Closure Patent, Hayward Brothers Bottled Foods from London - by Tom Caniff; Las Vegas Show - nice photos, by Steve Bava; Up-Dates; Texas Dr. Pepper, by Jack La Baume; Dublin, Texas Dr. Pepper Plant Turns 100, by Larry Zelisko. Bits of writing on first page. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: What in the World are Nordhausen Korn Schnapps? - article with photos by Jack Sullivan; Bryan's Top Shelf - Embossed Pepsi-Cola Bottles - article with photos - by Bryan Grapentine; Magic Metamorphic Advertising/Trade Cards of the late Victorian age - article plus reproductions of super vintage ads, by Dave Cheadle; "Seeking Killer Jars", by Jack La Baume; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News - Shows; Auction Directory; British Bottle Bits - Clay Pipe Bowls; The Label Space - Max Ams of Cincinnat and their patented sheet metal can and their patented cover fastening for jars, WAN-ETA Cocao of Boston - by Tom Caniff; Details of a major Western Glass Auction; Up-Dates; Bromo-Seltzer Blue - postscript to article in last issue, by Cecil Munsey. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: One Hail of a Story, by John Moore; Westmoreland's Mustards - The Westmoreland Specialty Company of Grapeville, PA; Jack La Baume tours the oldest Dr. Pepper Bottling Company in the world in Dublin, TX - great article and photos; Two Hard-to-Find Warners - Richard A. Cannon collects bottles from Hulbert Harrington Warner of Rochester, New York; Jar Talk - Jack La Baume has moved to Texas and shares his experiences; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - Nailsea Glass; Auction Directory; The Label Space - O.C. stands for the Oneida Community - a Smalley, Kivlan & Onthank's Double Safety Jar - An Atlas E-Z Seal packed by Harbauer; ; Up-Dates; Bottle Colors - article by Ben and Miriam Glassman. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: H. Kennedy Pottery of Glasgow - Scottish Potter for the World - good article with photos; Holston Bottling Company - an earlyDr.Pepper bottler; Political Trade Cards II - article with reproductions of super vintage ads; Jar Talk; Extra-Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; The Owl of Munsey - Scott Grandstaff dislikes stain!; British Bottle Bits; The Label Space - Weyman & Bros. Jars; Auction Directory; Up-Dates; Digging Around. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: Patent Medicine Horror - Their manufacturers recognized the appeal of the morbid to the American Public - great article with vintage morbid ads; Ants Interred - a Garry Owen Strengthening Bitters tale; Political Trade Cards - buying the votes and selling the goods - great vintage ads; Jar Talk; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - tinder boxes and other items which predate the modern friction match; Expo '92; Auction Directory; The Label Space - picked Pigs Feet Bottles, and other bottles probably marketed through the Sears-Roebuck catalog; Up-Dates; Dispensing Tablets - Ben and Miriam Glassman examine their newly acquired poison bottles; Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: A Dream Come True - Jim and Barb Sinsley and their trip to New England for Bottlemania; Strangers in a Strange Land - the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the American Dream - article and many fantastic vintage ads and illustrations; His Crown Caused a Revolution - William Painter of Baltimore invented the crown cork; Jar Talk; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - Fairy Lights; Pretty, Strange, and Poisonous - the garden of Ben and Miriam Glassman; The Label Space - Raymond's Best Pickles, a Canadian bottle - Labelled embossed Putnam Lightning jars - Labeled Phoenix Surgical Dressing Jar; American Seals; Up-Dates; Auction Directory; Super Digger. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Dr. Grattan & Diptheria, Richard A. Cannon M.D.; American Whisky Jug 'Copy Cats', by Jack Sullivan; Arctic Obsession - "The Victorian Race for the North Pole", by Dave Cheadle; Auction Directory; Extra Special Deliveries; Jar Talk, by Jack La Baume; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - "Torquay Potteries", by Rob Goodacre; The Woman from Hell - A Bottle Digger's Nightmare, by Ross Johnson; The Label Space - The Dunkley Celery and Preserving Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan, by Tom Caniff; To Sleep, Perhaps to Dream, of Old Bottles, by John Cooper. Back cover repro. ad for Red Cross Kidney Plaster. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Black and white photos. Features: Pre-historic Baseball Cards, by Dave Cheadle; Drinking Homage to the Scottish Highlander, by Jack Sullivan; The Nickels House and Isaac A. Nickels, by Charlie Barnette; Bryan's Top Shelf - the Fabulous Ruby Red Beer Bottles, by Bryan Grapentine; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - Scent Bottles of the 18th Century, by Rob Goodacre; Mary in Bottleland, by Jodee Holzwarth; Containers with a European Flavor - England's Crosse & Blackwell Company, by Tom Caniff. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos. Features: The Fredericksburg Brewery, by Dave Scafani; Pre-Historic Baseball Cards (Continued), by Dave Cheadle; A Poisonous Mixture - Various Poison Containers, by Ben & Miriam Glassman; Jar Talk, by Jack La Baume; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - "True Bits" - Dr. Mackenzie Catarrh Cure, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - Snuff and other Product Jars, by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; "Roll Out the Barrel", by Ralph Van Brocklin. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Right Place, Right Time!, by Jim Sinsley; The Making of Uncle Sam, by Dave Cheadle; The Presentation Whisky Jug, by Jack Sullivan; Jar Talk - Alexander H. Kerr and the Kerr Glass Company, by Jack La Baume; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - The E.C. Flaccus Company, P. Duff & Sons, Battery Jar Update - by Tom Caniff; Part IV - To Remember Him (fiction), by Jackie McRae; Up-Dates; The Appeals & Perils of Appraisal, by Jack Sullivan. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Schoenheit Medical Company, by Richard A. Cannon, M.D.; The Making of Uncle Sam (Part 2), by Dave Cheadle; Did John McCloskie Invent a better whisky Jug?; Bryan's Top Shelf, by Bryan Grapentine; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - the E.C. Flaccus Co., Huyler's bottles, Kaffee Hag, by Tom Caniff; Granspa's Escapades (fiction), by Randy Leonard; Up-Dates; Auction Action. Nice two-page photo ad for The Richards Collection of American Historical Flasks at Absentee Auction, by Norman C. Heckler & Company. Cup ring on front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Farrar's Sarsaparilla and the J.L. Wood Drug Company, by Charlie Barnette; The British Hunting Jug, by Jack Sullivan; Jar Talk, by Jack LaBaume; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; Auction Directory; British Bottle Bits - interesting report and photos on the British National Show; The Label Space - Gordon & Dilworth of New York, by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; The Use of the Ferro-Magnetometer in Locating Bottles, by David Bethman. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Stuck on Glue - Liquid Cement Bottles - numerous fantastic vintage ads, by Dave Cheadle; Fulper of Flemington - Whiskey Potter Discovered?, by Jack Sullivan; Jar Talk - the Wee Stinky Fly Trip - and more, by Jack LaBaume; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - discovery of a cache of 53 bottle seals in North Wales; The Label Space - Jumbo Peanut Butter and the Frank Tea & Spice Company, Dove Brand Products - by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; Old Bottles & Corks - reprint of a great 1882 newspaper article, by Winston Reed Jr. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: Cover-Ups Revealed - Shoe Polish in Advertising - wonderful vintage ads, by Dave Cheadle; Small Town Beginning - Leopold Gerstle and the St. Joseph's Medicine Co., by Charlie Barnette; Byran's Top Shelf - Painting Embossed Bottles (painting the embossing white), by Bryan Grapentine; Auction Directory; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; In Memory of "Toot" Garten - Charlie Gardener; British Bottle News - Soda Syphons (what in the U.S. are called Seltzers), by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - Golden Rule and the Citizens' Wholesale Supply Company of Columbus OH, Seed and Bead Jars- by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; Brian Thatcher and His Poison Bottles - with great photos, by Rob Goodacre. Unmarked with moderate wear. Bit of waviness to some pages. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Features: The Meaning of the Sexual Labour of Slaves in the Nuu-chah-nulth-European Sex Trade at Nootka Sound in the Eighteenth Century; A Little Known Account of "Charles Haick's" Missionary; The Station Agent's Wife; Early Prince George - Through the eyes of a young boy; and more. Average wear. Few markings. Sound copy. Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: "All circuits are busy; I will call you" - the phrase of operators dealing with heavy traffic; Good-bye to the Seymour and Trinity manual offices - photos; Photo of the ladies of the Nelson small bore rifle club; adding switching equipment in Victoria; Gas masks, helmets, and more in Alma operating room - photo; Action photo of the First Vancouver Cadet Training Corps; Record load of telephone calls handled in B.C. in 1942 - article and photos; George Friend - Alma plant man - article and photos; Second birthday of the Van-Tel Credit Union; A few lines from the front lines - parts of letters from phone men on active service; John Jessop dies - photo and article; Back cover wartime announcement "Be Careful What You Say"; Photos of females filling in for males in the Vancouver Engineering department; Victory Bond ad.; Wire Shortage - here's why; "Behind the Lines!" - by George Matthew Adams; Wartime Problems of Telephone Business set forth in Annual Report; Great Cheque mystery solved by new payroll machine - 2 pages of photos and text; Popular traffic official dies - Robert A Henderson; Honour Roll, World War II; Honour Roll, World War I; Credit Union article; Letter by operator Elsie Forman; variety of photos emphasizing wartime parts shortages and recycling; Victory Bond ad.; E.E. (Slim) Sinden, wire chief at Chilliwack; Operator's form association; Roland Arthur Chute, former Kamloops Manager, retires; John Sowerby - survived fire and earthquake to become a phone man - article and photos; P.J. (Pete) McCormick retires; Illustrated letter from G.R. Peakes, Major-General, G.O.C.-in-C., Pacific Command, saluting the telephone industry; Many additional war photos/content; Using phones to report forest fires; Article on operator 'Quiz Kids' - information operators; honour roll of employees who have joined the war effort; Oliver Plant man Reuben Echlis retires; article from Reader's Digest arguing for wartime wage and price controls; James D. Baker passes away; William Henry Cooke retires; Update from Pipe-Major Edmund Esson in Sicily; Ex-operators rally to aid of telephone company, including newspaper ad.; Miss Leonie Michaud retires; Hockey star and telephone man Leslie Steel dies in Vancouver; many wonderful Victory Garden photos; war bond ad; Victory Loan depends on the Phone; Introducing Jack Veitch; Ads showing the wartime contributions of operators; in memory of Henry G. E. Goult; Victoria construction gang at work in photos; Photo of Victoria's operators at work; Farewell to Ernest F. Helliwell; Cranbrook operator, Minnie Egan, retires; Edward Dawson dies suddenly; Sergeant James Clark, R.C.A.F., reported a missing; Ernest S. Harris bids farewell; Cover photo of Pilot Officer Gordon Heselton, the first B.C. man to win a decoration in WWII (with story inside); photo of '25 club' war savings stamp booklet; 40 miles of phone bills - many photos; Record long distance load in 1943 but local calls show decline; John D. Johnston, general commercial manager; Full page instructions with the heading "Strict Conservation of Paper now a Necessity"; Jim Baigent and Arthur (Pop) Harness retire; "Lick Stamps to Lick Hitler" on back cover of one issue; Telephone Talk is shrunk to conserve paper; Net Revenue decrease in 1943; Full-page article o Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Many photos of the Ocean Falls mill, the plant and townsite of the Powell River mill, the Woodfibre mill, the Port Mellon mill, and Port Alice; Next Vancouver Dial Cut-Over on Saturday, April 12; Seymour's last 'Number Please' will be uttered April 12; 1886 photo of Tilley's bookstore which housed Vancouver's first telephone switchboard; photo of the Empire Building which housed Vancouver's telephone eschange from 1890 until 1907; Edward (Big Ed) William Singer passes away; Trinity operating room; Statement of Development (# of telephones in various exchanges) as at 1 January, 1941; Savings and Government Loans - article by President of the RBOC; War Bonds Appeal; Telephone operator Marion L. Davis writes of war-time Britain; Pioneer Mission Phone man John A. Catherwood passes away; Notes and photos from Eddie Esson, braving the blitz in England; Employees form credit unions; 6 samples of Canada's first telephone advertising, used in 1877 to promote Bell Telephone usage; artistic full-page war bond advert. with a Churchillian quote and silhouette, complete with cigar; Several pages of nice photos from the Courtenay/Comox region, including the Cumberland Mine; Courtenay and Comox receive new and improved phone service; All of downtown Vancouver now served by dial - multi-page article with photos; John Hough - The Comox Argus; Recycling phone books; Norman J. Dunlop retires; Many photos of Trail and vicinity; New dial unit for Victoria - text and photos; "Buck" Telephone advertisements - promoting the safety benefits of phones; Lauchie McMillan; Many great photos of Port Albernia and area, including a more heavily treed Cathedral Grove; PNE phone exhibit promotion; Peter Grant, Superintendant of switchboard construction, retires; Alan C. Irvine - new Marine Wire Chief; each issue concludes with the number of phones in each exchange; Many photos of Kamloops and area; 'Shortage of Telephone Supplies is a Wartime Problem'; Earl Squire; Fraser telphones now served by dial system - significant text and many photos; War Bond advert.; Elizabeth Teague retires as Victoria Toll Chief; 12 year growth chart of company's system with accompanying bar graph intended to show 'why forecasting is difficult'; Fascinating and substantial text and photos emphasizing conservation due to, among other things, a tin and rubber shortage due to Japanese attacks on Malaya; Photos and text of facility wartime blackout preparations; Jean Peard retires; Name of Highland office to be changed to Hastings; Photos of executives; photos of operator school; A.R.P. (Air Raid Protection?) meetings; Ship-to-shore service saves valuable log tows; Allan Wood Hunter recounts developing phone services in Venezuela; Many photos of drills to prepare for air attacks; Government puts restrictions on telephone installations; Did you use your phone during the Blackout? - article; James Cruickshank retires; Many photos of lovely young operators from across the province; Air Raid Sirens - photos and captions; Article on Norman MacDonald; William Sherry killed in Libya; Hugh D. Simpson; photo of 93' pole being escorted by policeman on motorcycle; Many ARP photos with captions; photo of tabulators at 'information'; two awesome photos from the Marine-Pacific facility; "Watch the Clock Wh Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office at Hope; 3 pages re: 'Up-to-the-minute' phone system for Vancouver's city hall; Article and photo of J.C. (Joe) Armstrong, founder of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Hope Joins our Phone System; 3 page article with photos re: The Jeffrees and the Pendrays - telephone pioneers in Victoria; The Birthplace of the Telephone - 2 page article; Employee sales plan resutls; Table of number of phone sets per B.C. community, January 1, 1937; The McMicking Family Tradition - 3 pages with photos; Roland (Sam) Nosworthy; North Vancouver Phones to Llanerchymedd; E.J. Haughton of Victoria; Linemen best Coquihalla avalanches; Lloyd Purdy; Peter McNeish; 'Thank-you' replaces repetition of numbers in Vancouver; George H. Halse, former CEO, passes away - 3 pages with photos; Cavalsky's Store was Nanaimo's first telephone office - 2 pages with photos; E. Purcell Johnston; Fire sweeps the Vancouver Sun - 2 pages; Harry Wilson; Great photo of construction men in front of Nanaimo phone office 25 years ago; 1886 fire leaves the Janes family home as Vancouver's telephone office - with photo; Robert Daniel Davies; We can telephone to China!; Life as a Vancouver operator; Low rates for Long-Distance calls Sundays and every night - with full-page rate sheet; Service to Britannia and Texada; Mrs. George Pittendrigh - Vancouver's first Toll Operator; PNE parade float cover photo; Service to Alaska now available; Operators rally to relieve load during Marpole fire; Edmund Esson; Juanita Booth, Seymour chief operator; James Cummins of Victoria - pioneer phone man; Newcastle Island picnic; Flat Rate Telephone Service for Greater Vancouver - 4 pages with photos; Dominion phone organization meets at Minaki Lodge; We can now talk to Haiti; "Operator, Get Me to the Police!" - 3 pages with photos; Anchor fouls North Vancouver cable; Engineers 'see' by phone during construction of new Pattullo Bridge, with photo; Photo of the London international switchboard - heart of the world telephone network; Ocean Falls and Edinburgh linked; Vancouver's phone directory - with photos; Vancouver can now 'magic carpet' from Vancouver to Bagdad; T. Percy Waters; Ten Years of Transoceanic Telephone Service, with photos; B.C. ship-to-shore service now available on commercial basis; Voices under the sea, by Al Miller; Reginald H. Milner; Pioneer James Cowherd; Submarine link with Britannia - 4 page article with photos; New Whytecliff office; Alfred Crickmay and his brothers; Development of the phone in B.C., by James Hamilton, V.P.; Operators used to need great memories - 2 page article with great Victorian-era operating room photo; Zeballos and Alert bay join phone system - article and photos; Prince Rupert centre of new radiotelephone network; Police session told of proposed teletype network; First call from Atlantic ship to Vancouver; Radio hams in our company; Newcastle Island picnic; Miss Almina Eligh; West Van exchange now includes Whytecliff; PNE float details and photos; F.C. Patterson retires, replaced by C.C. Simpson; Two submarine cables severed by Pier D Fire - with photos and text; Ship-to-shore demonstration on CJOR radio; Vancouver's telephone system will be converted to dial; C.A. (Charlie) Price; Frank C. Paterson; Beware of the common cold; Vancouver toll ro Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Service to Japan, Hawaii and the Philippines now available; Anchors foul cable 4 times within 10 days - Burrard Inlet; Classified system will be extended to remainder of territory - includes full-page rate sheet; Company gains telephones in 1934 after 3 year decline (presumably due to the Great Depression); Company architect, Hugh D. Simpson; Our overseas service kept growing last year; Employee Sales Team Results; Statement of Development, 1 January 1935 - show # of phones per community; System suffers heaviest storm damage in history - January 1935 - 8 pages with photos; New exchange for the Albernis; John C. Miles succeeds John Johnston as Building Head; World Telephone network now includes 60 countries; Billy Palliser - champion salesman for Victoria Plant; Sechelt Company picnic; New phone system for thriving Alberni area - 4 pages with photos; Record 19,000 mile call from Vancouver to Perth, Australia; Dog's bark in Vancouver heard in Scotland; Round the world telephone talk sets record; Telephony's part in Canada's Jubilee celebration - 2 pages with photos; Parksville Exchange has Dial Unit at Qualicum Beach; Arthur R. Harness - garden awards; New switchboard handled by sightless operator - article with photos; PNE float details and photo; 2-page bio. with photo of Eugene P. LaBelle, the company's General Superintendant of Plant *MR. LABELLE'S NAME IS STAMPED ON THIS COPY*; Carrier circuits established between Vancouver and Calgary; Number of phones increased last year; Miss Elizabeth Murray, Vancouver's first chief operator, dies; New radio stations established; Fraser telephone building remodelled; Conference calls link Canadian cities by long distance (!); Operator school reopened; George E. Pittendrigh of Cloverdale, BC - installed Vancouver's first telephones; Telephone folks to the rescue; New Long Distance developments embrace Howe Sound Points; Key to Safety on the Job; New radio link serves Quesnel and adjacent mining area; Vancouver's first emergency phone calls; Newcastle Island Picnic; C.A. (Charlie) Price - Queer theories prove that people read the 'Yellow Pages"; James Welsh - our first formen; Article on the challenges of information operators; Seymour operating room photo; Mr. W.F. Salsbury - helped pave the way for our present telephone system; *CARICATURE OF E.P. LABELLE* and other company executives; Vancouver Arena fire damage quickly repaired; PNE float photo and details; Long Distance developments this year; Dominion Telephone organization meets in Victoria; Ex-policeman Ernest A. Harris recalls use of telephone in 1891; Monte Butler wins more rowing laurels; and more. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and inside front board, else unmarked. Half-leather binding intact. Backstrip loose along front edge. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Hundred Thousandth phone installed - lengthy article; Essentials of good maintenance; Statement of Development - number of phones per exchange in the province; B.C. Telephone Company takes over East Kootenay System; Prompt service aids with Sidney fire; The office boys dream; Telephone assists in Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) Rush - great photo; Automatic phone system installed at Hammond; Keeping the electrons on the proper path; Photo of J.P.D. Malkin takes part in first Vancouver-London phone call; Shell Oil operator; Health Tips; Greater Vancouver can now talk to the European continent; Cable damaged by anchor; Radio interference putting music on phone lines; Production of phone directories - 4 pages with photos; Laying cable through Stanley Park; Direct Route to West Vancouver completed - 5 pages of interesting text and photos; Langley Prairie phone service restored during the fire - article with photos; Phone given as wedding gift in Vancouver; F.C. Paterson; Vancouver Power House Fire; Mr. George H. Halse becomes Chairman of the Board; Close-up photos of splicing job; Transatlantic phone service still expanding; photo of horse-drawn 'drop wagon'; Photo on Cordova St. after fire 42 years ago; There's more to installation work than just placing a telephone - 4 pages with photos and text; Good-bye to operating when Dan Cupid comes along; Sending news stories to Vancouver from California over phone wires; We are linked with 80% of the world's phones; photo of conduit laying on forty-first ave; The Monophone - advertisement; B.C. Tel. acquires government lines in the Interior; New trans-atlantic long distance mark; Photo montage of vehicles used by the Plant Department; B.C. Box Factory Fire; Baby causes problem by teething on phone cord; Chilliwack phone system now affiliated with us; Regular fire drills; Photo of Premier Tolmie participating in first call from Vancouver to Calgary - with detailed related story; The longest circuit in the system of the B.C. Telephone Company; A new radiotelephone company will be organized; New Fraser River Cable serves South Westminster Subscribers; Eleven european countries with telephone reach of Vancouver; Now installing a new type of telephone typewriter; New faster system for handling telegrams; Benefits of new telephone ownership are evident in 500-mile circle; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Significant wear to backstrip with some chips missing. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great cover photo of Duncan operating room; Several photos of new interior plant equipment at Duncan; Sensational 9-page feature on Duncan and district with great photos of the area including Duncan Station, Maple Bay, Genoa Bay, and an aerial view; Fire deprives downtown Vancouver of service - photos and text; Grand Forks office and staff; Table showing "Exchanges in order of Per Cent Good Calls Out"; Statement of Development as of 1 January 1924 showing number of phones per community; Cover photo of steamer Jacques Cartier; Nice full-page showing two views of Vancouver Harbour with many ships in port; 7 page feature on the Port of Vancouver with several great photos; Possibilities of both radio and wire telephony; Exchanges in order of percent good out calls; Excellent full-page photo of Ballantyne pier, Burrard Inlet; Take advantage of company's new savings plan; Fine addition to shipping facilities on Burrard Inlet - Ballantyne Pier - 5 great photos with text; Greater Vancouver will benefit by reduced telephone rate; Repair shop has greatly expanded in recent years - 6 pages with nice photos; nice full-page photo of the Empress of Australia in port; Greater Vancouver Inter-Exchange Telephone Service; Fold-out map of Vancouver area exchanges, complet with great statistics; Telephone extenstion to Campbell River; 8 page feature on the flow of commerce through Canada's western port with many absolutely smashing photos; Cover photo of Glenburn office; 6-page feature on the B.C. Herring fishery with excellent photos (re: sea lions, contains the following quote "The government is undertaking to greatly lessen the numbers of this prey animal"); archival photo of laying the first underground cable in Vancouver; Statement of Development - # of phones operating in each community; Cover photo of Milner office; photo mosaic of 5 lower valley exchange offices; Wonderful 8 page feature on the great supply district (i.e. the lower Fraser Valley) of BC coastal cities - excellent photos including a shot of the only remaining original Hudson's Bay Company building at Langley; New Gordon Head Exchange cut over; New Point Grey office under way; new observation office aids efficiency; Electrical Communication Development; Full-page photo of sailors from the battleship H.M.S. Repulse marching through Vancouver; Multiple photos of British warships docked at Victoria; Article and photos of the visit of the Royal Navy to Vancouver; The Traffic Department and the Public it serves; Tennis Tournaments; Printing a phone directory; Great feature on Ship Salvors (Salvagers) with many photos; A motoring trip through the U.S., with photos; Biggest cable will cross False Creek; Oxygen Farms; Cornelius Vanderbilt writes of his long distance call from Alberni to Los Angeles; P.B.X. serves interesting purposes - 5 pages with photos; Early motor tourists to B.C., with photos; Full-page photo of the Empress of Canada; 5 page illustrated article on the reclamation of the Sumas; The switchboard as a newspaper; Health secrets of the telephone pole - 3 illustrated pages; new Victoria equipment; Bayview library proves popular; cover photo of a long-distance operator timing a call with a calculagraph; Billing toll and inter-exchange calls keeps eight clerks busy - 3 pages with photos; 7 page a Book
