Hyannis, MA c.1910, Early Telephone Subscriber Pole

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted August 26, 2013
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Photograph taken of this neat 10-pin-over-six phone pole in this community on Cape Cod, MA with old homes and a windmill supplementing to the nice scenery along this unpaved road.

Note the subscriber drop wire leading from the pole to the house on the right.

At one time a lot if not all of Cape Cod was served by the Southern Massachusetts Telephone Company.

Even if Ma Bell (NET&T Co.) had assumed their customers by the time this picture was taken, then maybe there are some So. Mass. Tel. Co. insulators remaining upon this pole line ;-)

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