phone company to expand
TBHC105 years ago…
April 28, 1901 – Tampa’s Peninsula Telephone Company announces plans to extend long-distance telephone service down to Braidentown (Bradenton) and Manatee within the next six months. The company accomplished this by buying up the service in those areas and consolidating them into their own.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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April 28th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Their headquarters was located at 610 Morgan st in downtown Tampa. This ia still a large telephone switching office with a massive Verizon building on the site.