On This Day in Telephone History June 5TH 1946
On This Day in Telephone History June 5TH 1946 Telephone switchboard operator Julia Curran Berry becomes Heroine of the La Salle Hotel Fire. Forty-four year old widow Julia Curran Berry was the nighttime telephone switchboard operator at the La Salle Hotel when fire broke out. It spread quickly through the hotel’s highly-varnished paneling, traveled up … Read more