The featured technology for AT & T – The Bell Systems – was free long distance calls. Participants were selected by a lottery and were able to call to anyone within the 16,000,000 telephone Bell System or the 4,200,000 phones in other phone company systems. The calls were not private. They were connected to special headsets and anyone who wanted to could listen in on this amazing technology.

A statue of a Pony Express Rider stood in the front of the AT & T pavilion as a reminder of how far communications had come is so very few years.

AT & T - photo MO6 - from the collection taken by John Ott courtesy of his grandson Michael Ott.


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Photo DS-6 from the private collection of Dr. William R. Hanson.

A statue of Mercury, the "Spirit of Electricity," was the AT & T symbol for speedy communications and stood on top of the AT & T building.


AT & T - Photo RM03 - captured with permission from Robert Martens from a film taken by his grandfather, Gustave Martens.


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