LOL thrift store score "Bell Systems" / Simpson 260

I never worked for Bell, closest I've come to telco work was a few years for a Motorola shop, I helped install (what was then) Centracom (radio consoles) and Centralink (used to be SRX) phone switches. These not only handled conventional building telco and office to office, but the 911 trunks as well as remote control functions, like sally port doors or remote fire sirens, etc.

WA, couple jobs in OR, and a few "touchups" in ID. One of our bigger jobs was Whitman Co. WA, which then had the WSU PD, the Pullman PD, and the Whitman SO combined dispatch ON CAMPUS. That was a complete nightmare. The campus "physical plant" was hard line union, and we constantly had to fight with them over "our" equipment, of course serviced by "their" lines as well as the local POTS

On top of that parking on campus was nearly non-existent, no real provision for service vehicles, and traffic tickets back in ?? 92--98 were over 50 bucks.