Portland, OR c.1910, Fire Alarm Telegraph Central Ops Headquarters

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted January 4, 2015

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Really cool equipment and most of it is readily exposed. The exception was the master telegraph recorder seen on the left in its glass case. These had many brass gears and fancy parts, lightbulbs inside and a reel that rolled out the box number code on a paper strip. One can only imagine the insulators from our dreams that connected from this locate to the openwire fire alarm call-box network that was strung up and down the many streets of this Oregon city ;-)

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