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  2. Bell Telephone Company Building (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, the long distance exchanges were moved to a modern facility, the building was renovated as telephone company offices, and air conditioning was installed. About 1990, the building was sold and converted to use as a self-storage facility [2] and sold again in 2001 for use as apartments. [3]

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Philadelphia

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    The properties are distributed across all of Philadelphia's 12 planning districts. East/West Oak Lane, Olney, Upper North and Lower North are included as North Philadelphia. Kensington, Near Northeast and Far Northeast are part of Northeast Philadelphia. Roxborough/Manayunk and Germantown/Chestnut Hill are a part of Northwest Philadelphia.

  4. Architecture of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    By the 1930s numerous houses, many of them row homes, were in poor condition in Philadelphia. In a 1934 United States Department of Commerce survey of 433,796 houses found that eight in every thousand homes lacked water, about 3,000 homes lacked heating, and that 7,000 homes were unfit for habitation. By 1939 conditions had only improved slightly.

  5. West Oak Lane, Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia portal; Building 21 High School in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia, September 2017. West Oak Lane is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The neighborhood was developed primarily between the early 1920s and late 1930s, with the areas near to Cedarbrook constructed after World War II.

  6. List of houses in Fairmount Park - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of Lemon Hill Mansion. This list contains all of the extant historic houses located in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Most of the houses are referred to as mansions due to their size and use as the summer country estates of Philadelphia's affluent citizens in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  7. Your old cell phone may be worth more than you think

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    If old cell phones aren't the only vintage items you have stored away in your home, take a look at what some of the most valuable VHS tapes are going for. Related Articles AOL

  8. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    "If you look at your computer or phone camera screen with a strong magnifier, they both rely on exactly the same technology," Osterman explains. #7 East Face, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France ...

  9. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the invention of the telephone switchboard, pairs of telephones were connected directly with each other, which was primarily useful for connecting a home to the owner's business (They practically functioned as a primitive intercom). [15] A telephone exchange provides telephone service for a small