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Featuring vintage telephone & communications equipment dating to 1885. Fans of relays, electromechanical devices, soldering, and the Bell System. Home to the world's only working Panel Switch.
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Though to be fair, at the time, Western wasn’t actively manufacturing these objects. So the ad is truthful.
A picture of a western electric, junior electric range
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Oh yeah, Western Electric? Tell me more about how you don’t make washing machines and toasters.
A 1950’s western electric advertisement, depicting, telephone equipment being raised into a newly constructed telephone exchange. Several curious people are looking on from a distance. A close-up of text from the Western electric advertisement. The text reads as follows. “ Making telephone equipment for the Bell system is Western electric‘s job and has been for 68 years. We don’t make toasters or washing machines or electric ranges. We make telephone equipment. Good equipment that helps give you good service at low cost.” A picture of a western electric toaster A picture of a western electric washing machine
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM