Frontier, MI c.1910, Village Centre, Utility Openwire Line, Early Gasoline Pump

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted May 24, 2015

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Telephone openwire lines were atop this pole line in this Michigan village. On the lower crossarm there could have been additional phone circuits or wires for electric lighting customers in this area. The "outhouse" or "phone booth" style gas pump shown is one of a very few I've seen within the zillions of vintage photographs I have seen...

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