A tremendous and irreplaceable collection of all things telephonic has been totally destroyed by a fire in California. The museum was the home to a collection of phones, phone-related items and key and switching equipment dating from the dawn of telephony to the present, numbering in the tens of thousands, including tons of rare paperwork, and several one-of-a-kind Bell Labs prototypes for subscriber equipment.

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Arthur P. Bloom
"30 years of faithful service...15 years on hold"