1958 Press Photo Technology - Jim Pitts & Joseph Boudreaux Dial Long Distance

Technology - Joseph G. Boudreaux, left, president of the West Bank Rotary Club, talks by long-distance telephone to Charles G. Tennent, president of Rotary International, in Evanston, Illinois. Jim Pitts, right, district manager of the Southern Bell Telephone Company's Forest and Fillmore exchanges on the West Bank, stands by demonstrating the station to station hookup by "direct distance dialing."

Photo is dated 1958.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.