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American Experience
1988
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American Experience
The Telephone 9 Season 5 Episode
55 min
1988
6.6
At first rented only "to persons of good breeding," seen as an expensive luxury for doctors and businessmen, within a decade the telephone had begun to transform American life. Trees gave way to telephone poles as operators known as "hello girls" began to connect a sprawling continent.
