Taylor Ridge, IL c.1910, General Store, Rural Phone Openwire

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted April 2, 2014
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Using whatever materials were available at the time, this open wire line (which might have been for electric lighting circuits instead) made its crooked way down through this Illinois village's Main Street beyond the railroad crossing in the foreground...

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