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Talking Between San Francisco and Guthrie

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Talking Between San Francisco and Guthrie

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05/23/2016

Talking Between San Francisco and Guthrie

Early-day Oklahoma Newspapermen in 1916.
People in photo include: E. B. Guthrie, Sidney Suggs, W. H. B. Hinds, Walter Ferguson, E. S. Bronson, R. E. Stafford, J. Burr Gibbons, and John Golobie

Date & Place: 1916 in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma United States

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05/31/2016

Demonstrating the power of the telephone from San Francisco to Guthrie Oklahoma - it reads “Distance, 2600 miles: rate $13.45 for first three minutes, $4.15 each additional minute: voice traveled at the rate of 56,000 miles per hour: 1,130 tons of copper wire and 99,450 polls used: $2,450,000 invested in Oklahoma-California line: first talk from Oklahoma made by E.S. Bronson, of El Reno.

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05/31/2016

Susie Burchfield Bonnie Runyan "One ringy-dingy..."

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05/31/2016

According to one inflation calculator I found, thats the equivalent of $300 for the first 3 minutes - then $90 each additional minute. And those of us with a cell phone from the mid '90s thought OUR rates were high! :)

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Jo Vaughn-Hutson

05/31/2016

Not everybody had a phone back then.

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05/31/2016

Great picture. Interesting History.

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05/31/2016

Amazing

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06/21/2016

Wow! 😮 Cool fact that calculation!

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