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ballardhepburnmich
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I would like to find out any information about the work of A. O. Zichang
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Do a search for
Zischang
with an "s". Use the all posts link and quite a bit will come up.
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A. O. Zischang, Syracuse New York. A picture is worth a thousand words;
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Not trying to hijack the thread but I picked up an interesting correspondence letter this year at the CGCA show that was in a stack of old documents and catalogs on one venders table. It was a standard form response letter produced by Stevens that was sent back to the customer from some time in the later part of 1920. The inquiry was about reboring or rebarreling an obsolete rifle. At the bottom of the form letter was a hand written section which stated something to the effect of..."At this time we no longer rebore or rebarrel rifles, shotguns or pistols. Please refer to A.O. Zischang (street address) Syracuse New York. To me it was a cool piece of history 1 due to the fact that stevens would refer them to him over other makers and that it verified that as of 1920, Stevens was no longer doing that type of work. Just an interesting side note...
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Zischang's business card;
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oodmoff wrote
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Not trying to hijack the thread but I picked up an interesting correspondence letter this year at the CGCA show that was in a stack of old documents and catalogs on one venders table. It was a standard form response letter produced by them that was sent back to the customer from some time in the later part of 1920. The inquiry was about reboring or rebarreling an obsolete rifle. At the bottom of the form letter was a hand written section which stated something to the effect of..."At this time we no longer rebore or rebarrel rifles, shotguns or pistols. Please refer to A.O. Zischang (street address) Syracuse New York. To me it was a cool piece of history 1 due to the fact that stevens would refer them to him over other makers and that it verified that as of 1920, Stevens was no longer doing that type of work. Just an interesting side note...
Speaks highly of Zischang's work that Stevens would refer to him too!
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What does "Old telephone" on his card mean?
"some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence
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I would guess, you just ring up the operator and ask her to ring up A.O. Zischang.
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My mother's brother's family lived in Wakarusa, Indiana, an Amish-centered town that still hand a crank-phone system, one of the country's last, in the early 1960s; what Mr. Schultz guesses is exactly what you did. And if I remember correctly,
The Andy Griffith Show
suggested that operator-controlled systems hung on even longer, at least in some small Southern towns.
I wonder if such systems still exist anywhere today?
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I wonder if such systems still exist anywhere today?
Probably gone the way of the dirt floor bar.
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And then there were the party lines when growing up, you could listen to others conversations or kindly ask them to hang up so you could use the phone. Listening to others was always interesting and even more so if you knew those on the other end of which most did. My cousin hooked up a recorder that did not require the receiver to be picked up so no one had a clue when they were being listened to. Some of those folks had some pretty interesting personal secrets they were unknowingly sharing to say the least.
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Jeff_Schultz wrote
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I would guess, you just ring up the operator and ask her to ring up A.O. Zischang.
In a city the size of Syracuse? Seems doubtful to me, though I have no idea of the meaning. Possibly the card went to the printer incomplete.
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JLouis wrote
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My cousin hooked up a recorder that did not require the receiver to be picked up so no one had a clue when they were being listened to. Some of those folks had some pretty interesting personal secrets they were unknowingly sharing to say the least.
JLouis
Living in a backwoods area, once had to put up with a party line for several years--bitterly hated it, even without an eavesdropper.
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Redsetter wrote
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Jeff_Schultz wrote
on Jun 11
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I would guess, you just ring up the operator and ask her to ring up A.O. Zischang.
In a city the size of Syracuse? Seems doubtful to me, though I have no idea of the meaning. Possibly the card went to the printer incomplete.
It may seem doubtful to you, but it seems entirely plausible to me in 1920.
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