Pictured are five Fort Worth buildings. Can you identify them?
Main door, near South Side.
Above main door, near South Side.
Above main door, North Side.
Above main door, Poly.
Need a bigger clue? Here’s an entire building in Riverside.
Answers: These buildings all housed exchanges of Bell telephone. In order:
WAlnut exchange building (1931) on Bowie Street on the near South Side.
ROsedale exchange building (1909) on Jennings Avenue on the near South Side.
MArket exchange building (1931) on Chestnut Avenue on the North Side.
JEfferson exchange building (1927) on Avenue G in Poly.
VAlley exchange building (1946) on Eagle Drive in Riverside.
Remember your family’s phone number during your childhood? Ours in Poly was JE6-2912. We had a party line.
