Looking For Love (1964) had pop singer Connie Francis, as a switchboard operator with showbusiness aspirations, singing seven songs.
They are supposed to share a telephone switchboard with the three other tenants, a notary public, a public stenographer, and a mimeographing company, but the morning we were there the calls were strictly defense.
There are a series of meeting rooms with fancy worn maps hanging on the walls, long tables, comfortable bright blue chairs, and a secretary's desk complete with a telephone switchboard with oversized comical buttons like the kind you'd see in an old James Bond movie.
As a boy, he wired a communication system for his friends, using old phone equipment that was left behind in vacant apartments and built a crude switchboard with knife switches, only to be caught by a repairman, his daughter said.
"It was a big switchboard, with square buttons you punched," Martin said recently, in the Met's lobby.
Onetime Bell Labs engineer Fadi Chehadé is president and chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the 16-year-old California-based nonprofit that acts as something of a switchboard operator charged with maintaining a stable global Internet.
"There's something about a mechanical telephone switchboard, with wires being plugged and unplugged, that's an easier way of drawing what our lives have become with the Internet than a TV monitor," he said.
We found the office & spent a pleasant half hour kicking things around with a switchboard operator She wasn't hopeful about our mission, but was willing to give it a try if we'd wait for a certain party.
She walked into the St . Regis Hotel arguably the best ski hotel in Aspen, and walked out with a switchboard job that left weekends free for skiing and who knows what else?
Christine Seymour had recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College when she started working at the back of Cohn's office as a switchboard operator, connecting calls with clients including Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the mobsters Gambino and Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno.
