Central Valley Pacific Bell/SBC

Type: Suburban

This is Visalia 11. It opened in April, 1948, replacing the manual exchange three blocks away at 129 S. Church Street. It was a step-by-step office, REdwood-4.

There are two very high-ceilinged floors above ground. The switches, testboard and trunking were on the first floor. Operator Services (Traffic) cord switchboards and DA took up the second floor.

The brown concrete insets in the walls cover the windows that fell victim to the Cold War.

If you look closely in the bottom picture you can actually see the shadow of the old Pacific Telephone signage, with the 1969 Bell System logo. Pacific Bell removed the sign in 1984, when they placed their red star-key emblem on the north and west faces of the building. Those were later replaced with SBC signage. New AT&T signs are undoubtedly close at hand.

Old Exchanges: REdwood 4

CAMP NELSON (Thanks to WR)	Remote switch hosted by Porterville office and all microwave feed. Single bounces off a passive repeater then down to Porterville. Office is about 5000-foot elevation and serves the Southern Sierra towns of Camp Nelson, Cedar Slope, Alpine Village and Ponderosa.
DELANO	Type: Suburban Original Pacific Telephone office built in the late 50s.
DINUBA	Type: Rural Manual exchange replaced with #5 Crossbar between 1948 and 1953. Current DMS 100 Host has 591, 595 and 596. Old Exchanges: LYman 1
EARLIMART	Type: Suburban Remote Switch Old Exchanges: VIctor 9
FARMERSVILLE	Type: Suburban Hosted out of Visalia CO. Original CDO placed in service sometime prior to the advent of ANC in the mid ‘60s. Now a Nortel DMS remote. Old Exchanges: SHerwood 7
GOSHEN	Type: Rural Remote switch at a strange location between the intersections of two major highways. Probably built by Central California Telephone Co. in the mid-1960s when the highways were just a cross-road.
KINGSBURG	Type: Rural Central California Telephone office built in the late 1950s. Old Exchanges: TWinoaks 7
OROSI	Type: Rural Remote hosted by Dinuba CO. CDO (SXS) replaced suburban and farmer line service. Date not known, but presumably after dial came to Dinuba Main. Currently a Nortel remote switch. Still one-prefix town. Old Exchange: LAwerence 8
PIXLEY	Type: Rural Original Central California Telephone Co. remote switch Old Exchanges: PLaza 7
SELMA	Type: Rural Old Exchanges: TWinoaks 6
SHAFTER	Type: Suburban Original Central California Telephone office taken over by Pacific Telephone. Old Exchanges: PIoneer 6
TIPTON TIPTON ENTRANCE	Type: Rural Original Central California Telephone office. Interesting Spanish style architecture and door entrance design.
TULARE	Type: Rural Original Central California Telephone office. Old Exchanges: MUrdock 6
VISALIA VISALIA (Rear of office)	Type: Suburban This is Visalia 11. It opened in April, 1948, replacing the manual exchange three blocks away at 129 S. Church Street. It was a step-by-step office, REdwood-4. There are two very high-ceilinged floors above ground. The switches, testboard and trunking were on the first floor. Operator Services (Traffic) cord switchboards and DA took up the second floor. The brown concrete insets in the walls cover the windows that fell victim to the Cold War. If you look closely in the bottom picture you can actually see the shadow of the old Pacific Telephone signage, with the 1969 Bell System logo. Pacific Bell removed the sign in 1984, when they placed their red star-key emblem on the north and west faces of the building. Those were later replaced with SBC signage. New AT&T signs are undoubtedly close at hand. Old Exchanges: REdwood 4
WASCO	Type: Suburban Original Central California Telephone office. Old Exchanges: PLateau 8