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Mecca of Telephone Men
Around 1900, when the telephone was new, New York City was the "mecca of telephone men." The nickname was rarely used then and quickly died, but it's sometimes given in lists of New York City nicknames.
11 July 1913, New York Times, pg. 11 ad:
"New York is the
Mecca of Telephone Men."
(...)
New York Telephone Company
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Hennepin County Library - Fugitive Fact File... Other nicknames for New York City include: City of Towers, the Commercial Emporium, the Empire City, Gotham, the Mecca of Telephone Men, the University of ...
http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/fff/Brief.cfm?Term=Placenames - 10k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
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The History of the Telephone - CHAPTER VIII... China, Japan, and France have sent delegations to New York City --"the Mecca of telephone men," to learn the art of telephony in its highest development. ...
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/ tech/engineering/TheHistoryoftheTelephone/chap8.html - 40k - Cached - Similar pages
From:
The History of the Telephone
by Herbert N. Casson
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
1910
11 July 1913, New York Times, pg. 11 ad:
"New York is the
Mecca of Telephone Men."
(...)
New York Telephone Company
(Google)
Hennepin County Library - Fugitive Fact File... Other nicknames for New York City include: City of Towers, the Commercial Emporium, the Empire City, Gotham, the Mecca of Telephone Men, the University of ...
http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/fff/Brief.cfm?Term=Placenames - 10k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
(Google)
The History of the Telephone - CHAPTER VIII... China, Japan, and France have sent delegations to New York City --"the Mecca of telephone men," to learn the art of telephony in its highest development. ...
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/ tech/engineering/TheHistoryoftheTelephone/chap8.html - 40k - Cached - Similar pages
From:
The History of the Telephone
by Herbert N. Casson
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
1910