From the Boomtown USA blog from Jack Schultz.
He recently visited West Wendover, a town along 3rd generation Lincoln Highway, and was greeted by the famous 90 foot high Wendover Will, reputed to be the tallest mechanical cowboy in the world in all his quarter mile of neon. Jack was sorry he was not able to see Will at night.
West Wendover is a gambling town, and...a bit of a communication history of note. On June 17, 1914, AT&T erected the last of 130,000 telephone poles here for transcontinental service.
The first call was from Alexander Graham Bell in New York City, who called his one-time assistant, Thomas Watson, in San Francisco. He repeated his famous first words, "Mr. Watson, come here. I need you." To which, Watson replied, "It would take me a week now." Good story.
Also, during World War II, more than 1000 bomber crews trained at West Wendover, including the crews of the Enola Gay and Bock's Car which dropped the two atom bombs.
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I Definitely Liked the Story About Bell and Watson. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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