No More Telegrams

It's the end of an era. You saw the bad guy in a Robert Young western holding a gun to the operator's head and forcing him to write a terse message. You saw Loretta Young and even earlier movie stars receiving good or bad news from the hotel bellboy in the form of a piece of folded paper on a tray.

Yes, the era of the telegram, a time-honored method of communication for 150 years, came to a quiet end last Friday when Western Union delivered its final telegram. Check it out here."

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