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Gridley Telephone Museum
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A museum in Gridley displays 100 years of telephone history.
In Gridley, Illinois, one museum tells the story of something we take for granted today—the telephone. Everything in the museum was once used in Gridley and the phones on display span 100 years. Gridley was the second to last community in Illinois to still have operator-placed switchboard calls, but the first downstate community to have touchtone and the first in Illinois to bury their phone lines
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Backyard Journeys
Gridley Telephone Museum
Clip | 6m 20s
In Gridley, Illinois, one museum tells the story of something we take for granted today—the telephone. Everything in the museum was once used in Gridley and the phones on display span 100 years. Gridley was the second to last community in Illinois to still have operator-placed switchboard calls, but the first downstate community to have touchtone and the first in Illinois to bury their phone lines
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