The ladies are celebrating their own obsolescence with the last day of operator assistance for all telephone calls. The next day would introduce direct dialing at the Summerville Telephone Company.
![operators in color](ChattoogaPhotos/2012_April/BB_18b_color.jpg)
Some have speculated that the following image shows the construction of the telephone office in Summerville at the northwest corner of West Washington Street and Cox Street, circa 1958.
![future phone office](ChattoogaPhotos/2012_April/GE_05.jpg)
Thanks to Ben Bridges for providing the operators photographs, Gene McGinnis for the telephone company logo, and Gene Espy for the construction photograph.
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