Rosemont, MN c.1940 Downtown Openwire Lines

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted August 21, 2012
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An old car (parked on the far left) along with what's gotta be the best ot Americana signs and everything else is seen along this dusty main-street of this Minnesota town. Added note: the open-wire telephone line to the right with lots of artisticly positioned transpostion brackets most likely was a long distance telephone route. As a kid I always thought of multitudes of transposition brackets like printed musical notes. With the wind surfing through the air within open-wire like this, it probably sounded like nature's free concert.

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