[GreenKeys] Models 14 - 15 - 19
COURYHOUSE at aol.com
COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Mon Jan 18 18:31:13 EST 2016
Sure! Wayne! Part of our mission here is empowering other museums with
iron!
...and we have a few things here that john does not have that can
add to the mix perhaps.
Example -
Photo by Bette Sharpe/Glendale Daily Planet
Teletype guys
At left, Ed Sharpe, archivist for SMECC, and Dan Kallberg, curator of the
Glendale Police Museum, lean on the vintage teletype machine. An interest
in teletype machines and a friend at the Glendale Police Museum started
Sharpe on an interesting quest.
Posted: Friday, April 26, 2013 8:48 am
By Bette Sharpe, Glendale Daily Planet; Special to The Glendale Star | _1
comment_
(http://www.glendalestar.com/features/feature_stories/article_b7873854-ae88-11e2-99c9-001a4bcf887a.html#user-comment-area)
An interest in teletype machines and a friend at the Glendale Police
Museum started Ed Sharpe on an interesting quest.
Years back, Sharpe, archivist for the Southwest Museum of Engineering,
Communications and Computation, had been discussing police communications with
Dan Kallberg, a retired police officer and the curator of the Glendale
Police Museum. At that time, it was located in the Fraternal Order of Police
hall east of the Glendale Public Safety Building. Kallberg had mentioned the
Glendale Police Department had used a teletype machine in the 1960s.
Time went on and Sharpe ended up with a group of teletypes he was using to
build a history display on telecommunications for the deaf. Remembering
back to his conversation with Kallberg, Sharpe was curious as to what model
teletype the Glendale PD had used. Kallberg showed Sharpe a photograph of an
officer sitting in front of a teletype, Model 28 KSR, a 5 level Baudot
machine.
SMECC likes to put things out at other museums for display, so plans were
made to loan the police museum a teletype just like the one in the photo.
Sharpe was curious as to who the officer was, and suggested that they try to
find him and pose him with the teletype unit at the museum - sort of a
before and after photo.
Kallberg told Sharpe the officer’s name was Sal Vetrano, and that the
photo had been taken in the new (at that time) police station (torn down, the
Civic Center stands on that ground now). Vetrano had joined the Glendale
Police Department in 1953 as a reserve officer, then went on as a full time
officer in 1956. Vetrano stayed on until 1970, when he left the department.
Kallberg states, “When Sal was an officer, he was the one responsible for
starting up the PD’s photo lab, maintaining and controlling the records
section of the PD, and running the front desk and assisting citizens when they
came in to the Police Dept. Sal ran the teletype machine, which was
connected to California, Nevada, Oregon, and Arizona.”
Armed with that information, Sharpe was able to start searching Sal out on
the Internet and based on age and some vague hints on prior locale, found
Sal living in Leakey, Texas, and running Vinny’s Pizzeria at 82 years of
age.
Sal said he would come to pose for a “current” photo with a teletype when
he comes to Arizona to visit his children.
The teletype is all in place in the museum for people to visit, and
Kallberg the curator said, “The teletype machine, although slow by today’s
standards, was a fast way of obtaining critical information about felony crimes
that had just occurred within the Four Corners area. The teletype also
freed up the telephone line at the police department for other incoming calls
for service. Thanks to the efforts of Sharpe, the Glendale Police Museum was
able to obtain this teletype machine for display. With Ed’s help we were
able to preserve a small piece of history and put it on display so everyone
could enjoy.”
Visit the Glendale Police Museum at 6835 N. 57th Drive. Museum hours are 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Office hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday and Wednesday. For more information,
visit_www.glendaleaz.com/police/history.cfm_ (http://www.glendaleaz.com/police/history.cfm) .
In a message dated 1/18/2016 4:23:48 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
hwhall at compuserve.com writes:
John, sorry to hear that you're in need of more procedures and I sure hope
that things turn out well. Perhaps Ed and I can figure something out if
there's not someone much nearer that is interested in your machines.
Ed, I've been looking for some Teletype stuff that might be made into
working displays for the WWII Aviation Museum in Colo Springs. If you don't
need all that John is trying to move along, perhaps the two of us could work
something out for transportation. Though at this moment I don't know what. I
haven't discussed the display idea with the museum leads yet, though. I
imagine they'd go along with it if it was "cheap". <ha!>
Wayne
WB4OGM
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys
<greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
To: jcw1231 <jcw1231 at pacbell.net>; GreenKeys <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 2:12 pm
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Models 14 - 15 - 19
John - with sorrow we hear of your condition with your arms and
hands....
we are a museum located in arizona 85301
but transport perhaps can be arranged?
least case we have a desperate need of a 14 typing reperf.
do you have one with the celuoid keys or the green keys let us know.
thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc
see us at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/)
In a message dated 1/18/2016 12:39:42 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
_jcw1231 at pacbell.net_ (mailto:jcw1231 at pacbell.net) writes:
I have some typing and non-typing 14 reperfs, a "mailbox" model 15, at
least two other 15s, one an RO, several 14 TDs, a 19 on its table, a WU 15
case not well stored, gears, series govd motors, type baskets, a CV-89 or two,
etc etc... I became disabled some years ago and my docs now have
documented that I need another 4 procedures on my arms and hands that the insurance
carriers refuse to cover... soooooo, it looks like I need to reduce, as
much as possible, my TTY Corp hardware, since it is more and more unlikely
that I will be able to use or maintain it.
It would be wonderful if there is somebody on the list who would be
interested in all these items that are located in zip code 93257 (which I think
is grid square DM06)
John
WB6BLV
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