08/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

PCHNMOTERSM

Pocahontas

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

833

It houses a Remote Switch Module hosted by the Cape Girardeau 5ESS. Pocahontas is a nice little farming community north of Jackson.

08/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

PRVLMOLIRSL

Perryville

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

517, 547

It houses a Remote Switch Module hosted by the Cape Girardeau 5ESS. There may be nicer farm communities than this one in the US but they would be difficult to find.

08/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

PYVLMOTIRS7

Paynesville

DRL

847

This is a northeastern Missouri Central Office. The RLCM (Remote Line Concentrator Module) in this office is hosted by the Hannibal DMS100. The portable generators like the one shown in this picture are losing favor in AT&T as they seem to disappear in southern states in the aftermath of hurricanes.

08/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

PATNMOTORSG

Patton

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

866

This office serves a southeastern Missouri farm community. It houses an RSM hosted by the Cape Girardeau 5ESS. The signage shown here was replaced in 2009 with new AT&T appropriate material.

06/01/2011

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

ORANMOCORSJ

Oran

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

262, 583

It is a rural office in Southeast Missouri which houses a 5ESS remote switch hosted by the Cape Girardeau switch. Oran is a pleasant little farm town and so it is not surprising to see that the office was a small house downtown which has since been augmented by 2 building additions. The one next to the house was built first, the one in the rear was built for a small ESS switch back in the late 1970s.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

OLAPMOSTRSQ

Old Appleton

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

788

It houses a remote switch hosted by the Cape Girardeau 5ESS switch. It sits in the center of this little southeast Missouri farming community.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

NWMDMOSHRS0

New Madrid

Genband/Nortel RSC

748

This is the town the New Madrid fault is named after. The office houses a remote switch hosted by the Sikeston DMS100. In this office the intent was to reinforce the foundation to protect against a future earthquake. It was discovered that the original foundation concrete had deteriorated over time and normal reinforcement was impossible. The Southwestern Bell engineering staff came up with this clever alternative, They built a robust frame around the building and attached the building walls and roof to it!

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

MRHSMONORS6

Morehouse

Genband/Nortel RSC

667

It houses a remote switch hosted by the Sikeston, MO DMS100. The “New Madrid” style of external earthquake bracing was used for this CO in the 1980s.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

MTCYMOLORS1

Montgomery City

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

564

It houses a remote switch hosted by the Mexico AXE10. It serves a farming community in middle Missouri and the switch sits in between the business district and the residential part of town.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

MEXCMOJUDSA

Mexico

Ericsson AXE 10

473, 581-2

It houses a host Ericsson AXE10 switch for a central Missouri cluster. You used to find a public telephone outside almost every Central Office, by 2005 this was one of the few working phones left. It is no longer there, cell phones finally made it irrelevant.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

METAMOBARS3

Meta

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

229

This CO is in a tiny town in Central Missouri. Today this signage is gone from the office but in 2005 it was one of few where the old SWBT sign was mostly still visible. This offices houses a remote switch hosted by the Linn AXE10.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

MRTNMONIRS2

Marston

Genband/Nortel RSC

643

The building houses a remote switch hosted by the DMS100 in Sikeston, MO. This is one of the river towns in the bootheel but the building is sufficiently robust that it did not require external bracing. I am not sure why AT&T felt it necessary to build a chain link fence around this building and top it with barbed wire but they did.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

MRHLMOBERSH

Marble Hill

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

238

It houses a remote switch module hosted by the Cape Girardeau 5ESS. Do not attempt to find this office for the first time at midnight. It is in a small town which has a sprawling business district and the office could be anywhere. If you follow fiber path signs to get there you may easily end up going from Cape to Jackson, the long way.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

LOSNMOSKRS4

Louisiana

Genband/Nortel RSC

754

If you love Mississippi river towns, you will love Lousiana almost more than any other. It is very picturesque, it gives you an easy view of the mighty river from a distance. The people are gracious to strangers. You may literally, step out the door of the office and see the river. It houses a remote switch hosted by the Hannibal DMS-100.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

LINNMOTWDS1

Linn

Ericsson AXE 10

897

This is home to another of the Ericsson AXE10 host switches, this one serves the Westphalia “LATA” formed at the whim of Judge Harold Green in the 1983 divestiture ruling. The Comm Tech who turned up this office and all of its remotes is Dan Ramsay (retired), now an instructor at the fine academic institution, Linn State Technical College.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

LDWDMOLORS3

Leadwood

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

562

It houses a remote switch hosted by the Park Hills (Flat River) 5ESS switch. This is lead country in Missouri and there are reminders of it everywhere for 50 miles on either side of this town.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

OSBHMOFIRS4

Osage Beach

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

302, 348

It houses a remote switch hosted by the Eldon 5ESS. When you are around the Lake of the Ozarks you are in party town and Osage Beach is not party central but it is close. The office sits right on business 54, the busiest little road in central Missouri.

06/01/2011

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

LKOZMOENRS0

Lake Ozark

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

964

It houses a 5ESS remote Switch hosted by the Eldon, MO 5ESS switch. This office is located by Bagnell dam which was built to form the Lake of the Ozarks. It generates a huge amount of electricity for Ameren UE, a Midwestern power utility. As you can see in these pictures the office has a large parking lot with storage facilities for a portable engine alternator and at least 1 company truck.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

HSBNMOHBRS1

Horseshoe Bend

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

964

This building houses a Remote switch hosted by the Eldon 5ESS. This new building is less than 10 years old. There is no town named Horseshoe Bend, it describes the shape of that part of the lake. People who don’t know the lake never can find this office.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

KNNTMOTUDS1

Kennett

Ericsson AXE 10

717, 888

It houses the largest Erricson AXE in Missouri. It is easily the largest central office in the bootheel. It now displays the new AT&T logo at the center top of the building. The building is a bit difficult to find because this town has a sprawling business district.

04/01/2012

CenturyLink/Embarq/Sprint/United Telephone

JFCYMOXADS0

Jefferson City

Genband/Nortel DMS-100

556, 632, 634-6, 638, 659, 681, 761, 893

09/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

JCSNMOCIDS0

Jackson

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS

204, 243

Jackson is a nice little town near to Cape. There is an old branch line railroad there that gives short tourist rides to visitors, with a steam engine if you are lucky.

09/01/2010

CenturyLink

IRTNMOXADS0

Ironton

Genband/Nortel DMS-10

546

This CenturyLink office in located in an eastern Missouri town. Ironton was the hub for transport of iron ore during the civil war from the hinterlands to St. Louis via rail. Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob were two sources of iron ore at the time.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

HRNVMOPERSA

Hornersville

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

737

This is an earthquake reinforced Missouri bootheel central office. It houses a remote switch hosted by the AXE in Kennett.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

HAYTMOFLRSJ

Hayti

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

359

This town was founded by ex-slaves who knew about Haiti and its slave revolt. They did not know how to spell the island so they named their town phonetically! You can see that they used the standard SEMO earthquake protection developed for New Madrid on this office.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

HNBLMOACDSA

Hannibal

Genband/Nortel DMS-100

221, 231, 248, 406, 629

This office houses a Nortel DMS100 which hosts a number of remote switches. Hannibal is, obviously, the home town of Mark Twain & Molly Brown. It is a great tourist destination for anyone who has read “Huckelberry Finn” or “Tom Sawyer”. It has a great classic SWBT logo over the door carved into the stonework.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

GIDNMOHIRSD

Gideon

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

448

It houses an AXR hosted by the Kennett Erricson AXE switch. Gideon is another tiny farming community in the Missouri bootheel. In the one picture you can see the portable engine alternator which is used to power this building in case of a major power outage exceeding 8 hours. This generator and hundreds of others have been to Galveston and other points south to serve during recovery efforts after hurricanes and ice storms.

04/01/2011

Fidelity Communicatiosn

GERLMOXARS3

Gerald

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

764

Bourbeuse Telephone only served the small ratecenter of Gerald. Fidelity Communications purchased them in 1998.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

FLTNMOMIRS0

Fulton

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS EXM

592, 642

It is home to a remote switch module hosted by the Eldon, MO 5ESS switch. Fulton is also the home to Westminster College where Winston Churchill gave his famous “Iron Curtain” speech. At this college you can see an old English church and a section of the Berlin Wall as part of a monument to the visit of Mr. Churchill.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

FRTWMOSTRS2

Fredricktown

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

783

It houses an RSM hosted by Farmington, MO.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

FLRVMOGEDSA

Flat River (Park Hills)

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Host

327, 431, 518

It houses a 5ESS switch which hosts a few remotes. Park Hills was created in the 1990s as the result of a merger of four towns including Flat River. No one here calls it Park Hills, to us it is still Flat River. This is the biggest city in the lead belt.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

FISKMOWORS4

Fisk

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

967

Houses a Lucent RSM hosted by the Poplar Bluff No. 5ESS.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

FRTNMOPLDS0

Farmington

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS

701, 747, 756, 760

It houses a 5ESS switch which hosts a number of remote sites. You can see vestiges of the old Southwestern Bell Telephone logo on the building. There has never been a town more honestly named than Farmington. It is a nice town in the heart of farming country.

09/01/2012

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

ELSBMOTWRS5

Elsberry

Genband/Nortel RSC

898

The EXchange here was TWinbrook. This is a 2 building facility with a 2 vehicle garage for company trucks. This is one of the Mississippi river towns between Hannibal and St. Louis in Missouri.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

ELDNMOEXDSA

Eldon

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Host

365 (Lake Ozark-Osage Beach), 392

Also serves parts of Lake Ozark-Osage Beach rate center (573-365). It houses a 5ESS switch which hosts a group of offices called the “Eldon cluster”. This is a great place to work because of its proximity to the “Lake of the Ozarks”.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

EPRRMONIRS3

East Prairie

Genband/Nortel RSC

649

This CO is located in southeast Missouri. It houses an RSC (Remote Switch) hosted by the Sikeston DMS100. This building did not require the severe earthquake reinforcement seen in New Madrid, all it got was the two steel “X” braces added to the front of the office.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

DXTRMOMARS0

Dexter

Genband/Nortel RSC

614, 624

It is a small town in SE Missouri which was famous for shoe manufacturing. It houses a remote hosted by the Sikeston DMS100. It sported the canvas sign proclaiming that SBC was building the Missouri information superhighway for a couple of years in the late 1990s

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

DRNGMOPLRSM

Deering

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

757

This office is in a tiny bootheel farming town. It houses a remote swirtch hosted by the Kennett Erricson AXE. Since it sits in the middle of a field of alluvial soil it got the New Madrid earthquake reinforcement too, even though it sits 12 miles from the Mississippi river.

07/01/2010

CenturyLink

CLMAMOXADS0

Main

Automatic Electric GTD-5

256, 397, 441-3, 449, 499, 815, 817, 874-6

Columbia is the home of the University of Missouri main campus.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

CLVLMOCIRS6

Clarksville

Genband/Nortel RSC

242

This is a Mississippi river town at lock and dam 24. It houses a Nortel DSC hosted by the Hannibal DMS100. It is easy to drive right past this office because it is situated so far back from 2nd street that you think it is actually a First street address.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

CHTNMOMURS2

Charleston

Genband/Nortel RSC

683

Yes, it is another river town in cotton country and it too needed the new Madrid earthquake treatment. This work was done in the late 1980s when Dr. Iben Browning was predicting a Richter 8 or worse quake for the new Madrid fault. No steel sheets required for this office because it does not have the huge plate glass windows found in Caruthersville and Hayti. The customers here are served by an RSC hosted by the Sikeston, MO DMS100.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

CHFFMOTURSD

Chaffee

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

887

It serves a nice little Southeast Missouri farming town with a 5ESS remote which is part of the “Cape Cluster” hosted by the Cape Girardeau, MO 5ESS. It sits back a couple of streets from the main road through town and is a tough one to find at midnight for work in the maintenance window.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

CTVLMOEDRSL

Caruthersville

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

333

This CO is right downtown in a Mississippi river town, less than a quarter of a mile from the river, sitting in the alluvial soil of Southeast Missouri which will transmit an earthquake ground wave extremely well. (Better than it grows cotton?) The building could not be earthquake proofed so, like the New Madrid CO it got an earthquake proof cage built around it and the building was then attached to it. Those large steel panels across the front of the office protect passers by from flying glass if the big one hits and blows out all the glass in the front of the office. Caruthersville is one of the Missouri outstate casino towns too, it is home to a property owned by Isle of Capri casinos.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

CDWLMOOLRSC

Cardwell

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

654

It houses an Ericsson AXE remote hosted by the Kennet, MO AXE. It serves a tiny bootheel farming town.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

CPGRMOEDDSA

Cape Girardeau

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Host

331-2, 334-5, 339, 519, 651, 730, 986, (618) 661 McClure, IL

Also serves McClure, IL (618-661). It is home to a 5ESS switch which hosts the remotes of the “Cape Cluster”. I have shown it here when it carried the “SBC” signage because only a handful of offices ever got this logo deployed on them. This office is also a toll collection center for SE Missouri. The building once sported a radio tower but when the DR6-30-135 radio got turned off in the early 1990s, the tower went too.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

CMPBMOCHRSH

Campbell

Ericsoon AXE 10 Remote

246

This Central Office is located in the Missouri bootheel. This is one of the many SE Missouri offices which are in the New Madrid earthquake zone where the quakes of 1811 & 1812 all exceeded Richter 8.0. It needed reinforcement to survive a quake but it was impossible to reinforce the building itself so an external Steel cage was built around the structure and then attached to the building.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

BWLGMOEARS3

Bowling Green

Genband/Nortel RSC

324

Located in eastern Missouri. It houses a Nortel RSC hosted from Hannibal, MO. It is a classic 1950s style rural central office for Southwestern Bell Telephone. It sits right in the downtown business area and provides a nice covered entrance for bill payers to come in and do business.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

BNTRMOFLRS4

Bonne Terre

Nokia/Alcatel/Lucent 5ESS Remote

358

The 5ESS RSM here is part of the Park Hills cluster. Bonne Terre is also part of the lead belt in Missouri and the town is dominated by a huge mountain of old tailings. The old lead mine here is flooded and is a scuba diving tourist attraction today.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

BLDLMOGURS1

Bloomsdale

Genband/Nortel RSC

483

Located in East Central Missouri.  It houses an RSC hosted by the DMS100 in Festus, MO.

07/01/2010

at&t/SBC/Southwestern Bell

BLFDMOLORS4

Bloomfield

Genband/Nortel RSC

568

It is located in Southeastern Missouri and houses a DMS RSC hosted by the DMS100 in Sikeston, MO.