What is There to See at the Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum?
The Second Floor The second floor is especially ‘kid’ friendly. Kids of all ages can crank the phones, learn how a step by step switch works, be a telephone operator and try to stump the ‘computer’. This is also where are archives are located for most of our slides, pictures and negatives as well as much of our documentation. The second floor also has the Red Box, an exhibit dedicated to WECO, an ESS switch, cord switchboards, TSPS, and part of the orginal Fredrick and Nelson PBX. The Hewitt room is dedicated to a collection of old telephone’s, all with different ringers, connected to their own PBX, donated by the family of Ted Hewitt, who was a general plant manager for Pacific Northwest Bell and interested in telephones from the time he was a small child. The “Timbuctu” central office was in Mr. Hewitt’s basement prior to his death.
