[GreenKeys] Why?

[Richard M. Gillingham]

Hmm...  Sounds like the ' IT'S MINE AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT' syndrome so 
often found in two year ld children.  Similar to the 'NOT THOUGHT OF 
HERE ' syndome...

Gil, W4PJI


John Brancich wrote:

> Hope this isn't too much of a tangent, but teletype equipment was 
> involved. . .
>
> I recently toured an excellent Telephone Pioneers Museum in Lincoln, 
> Nebraska.  Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph Co. was one of the largest 
> independent phone companies in the nation and had been owned by the 
> same family from about 1900 until 1999 when it was sold to a 
> mega-conglomerate.
>
> On the tour, I asked about surplus teletype equipment.  The volunteer 
> told me that there had been a huge warehouse of past phone (including 
> teletype) equipment which pretty much went back the 100 years of the 
> company's history.  When the new mega-company came in, they had 
> everything hauled to the landfill.  The Telephone Pioneers tried to 
> get some for the museum, some collectors made sizable offers for the 
> whole warehouse, but the company adamantly refused.  On the day they 
> hauled the equipment to the dump, they posted guards to make sure 
> there would be no scavenging and crushed the equipment.  I was 
> practically getting choked up listening to this story!
>
> My question is to the former phone guys on the list:  why would a 
> company not want anyone getting anything, even for a museum?  They guy 
> at the museum told me that it is still a mystery to everyone there.  
> Can anyone help me understand this seemingly-unwarranted carnage?
>
> Thanks,
> John, NJ0N
>
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