Swampy’s #Florida Photos: Placing telephone line in Lake Maitland, around 1935.
Across Lake Maitland, in Orange County around 1935, submarine cable is laid by the Winter Park Telephone Company. Notice the two men by the roll of cable. There’s one with a cigar, John Henderson, the construction manager.
This is a fascinating photo. There is a LOT of water to cut through across our state to connect wires and cables. Here’s how it was done in the mid-1930s. I worked to make this photo as clear as i could from the book’s tinted image.
This photo is from ‘Telephony in Florida Since 1877’ by Howard E. Carraway and in the Swampy library.
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