“Remembering Fun Working So Many Years Ago”

“Dial ‘O’ for your local OPERATOR!”

Everyone knows that when you dial  ‘O’  for OPERATOR… you will receive a  “voice with a smile”  and just so you can put  that “voice” into a picture as to  maybe someone you know… just thought that I would post the photos I have  for three other young ladies and myself. 

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The above PHOTO is of me and was taken within the first year of my learning to be a “Telephone Operator” and I do look fairly young, as when I started to work was not eighteen years old and did have to secure a worker’s permit and promise to not  quit,  when September rolled around to continue with the last  couple of months of High School.

The reason for taking this PHOTO… was that I had found this material with little telephones all over and just thought that I had to buy enough material … just to make a blouse that I could wear to work.

Of course lots of my friends at work liked the idea and the blouse and when wearing this blouse to places other than work… I could go into detail about working for the “Telephone Company.”

Just in case … you caught the PHOTO in the frame above the mirror, that is me as a baby.  My Mother told me that,  on this…  “One day…  I was playing outside and my Father came home in a  big hurry…  just grabbed me and rushed off in the car,  saying he had to hurry.”   Evidently there was a “BABY CONTEST” going on… and he wanted to have me,  entered in… by having my PHOTO taken.

When we return home,  later on… my Mother told  my DAD, “You could have at least let me clean  “Mary Ellen” up and put nice clothes on her!”  So… was my MOTHER, ever surprised… when the Photographers Store  called…  that  my parents, could pick up the “Blue Ribbon” for me.

Movie Stars 001This PHOTO, above is of  three of the other young ladies that started working for the “Telephone Co.”  with me,  there were two other girls, but… they  were not around when I was taking photos.

If I was to find and check my  old notebooks for the first four weeks of training, that we were in together, I might find the names of these girls  as we did have time to go to a couple of places to dance in the evening and we did have each other’s’ phone numbers.

One other memory … the young lady on the right of this PHOTO was not able to make dresses from patterns, but  as  I did like to sew and was able to make some of the clothes that she wanted… she  bought materials and  patterns for a variety of different  outfits, and I was happy to do the sewing… I was able to make use of the lessons I had  taken, and had fun just doing something different.

These were the days that we did not have “TV”  and were able to do lots of things, that people do not have time to do today … with the “TV’ occupying  all of our time.

If you think you know any of us  “OPERATORS”  just take the time and leave a message in the comment space.  Thanks!
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