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Hello, Central, here's a story of way-back times. Long ago, in the days of wire-based communication, before the cellphone or even the rotary dial, there was the operator. With granite composure and nimble fingers, the switchboard queen calmed emergencies and reunited the long-separated.

For almost 50 years, the operator and her analog world have been celebrated at Houston's telephone museum, a quirky collection of granny-era technology surprising in its ingenuity.

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