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== Installation and Service Life == | == Installation and Service Life == | ||
The Vermont 1XB was originally cut over on March 1 1942. Over 100 Western Electric workers worked to build the switch, which replaced the Vermont/Kenwood manual office that had served the residential neighborhoods around the University of Washington up to that point. [ | The Vermont 1XB was originally cut over on March 1 1942. Over 100 Western Electric workers worked to build the switch, which replaced the Vermont/Kenwood manual office that had served the residential neighborhoods around the University of Washington up to that point. <nowiki>[[citation needed]]</nowiki> | ||
Initially cut over with 15,908 stations, it grew over its lifetime as the number of subscribers in the neighborhood increased. A point of interest for the museum is that our founder, [[CMS:Herb H. Warrick, Jr.|Herb H. Warrick, Jr.]] was a switchman in this office in its early years. | Initially cut over with 15,908 stations, it grew over its lifetime as the number of subscribers in the neighborhood increased. A point of interest for the museum is that our founder, [[CMS:Herb H. Warrick, Jr.|Herb H. Warrick, Jr.]] was a switchman in this office in its early years. | ||