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The Boom of the Telephone

After the Second World War, more than half of Americans had phones in their homes. More people got telephones right after the war ended than any other time in history up till then. There were 10,000 new hookups a day. And in the sprawling, booming city of Los Angeles, everyone was patching in.

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