The telephones in the hotel rooms have no dials, which means that all calls - room-to-room, local, and long distance - must go through the hotel operator. This was common in hotels until the late 1960s when electronic telephone switching led to private branch exchange (PBX) phone systems, which made it more economical for hotels to do without operators. Many rural areas also had phone systems without dial phones, and thus used live operators, into the 1970s. Santa Catalina Island, California reportedly was the last area in the U.S. to get dial phone service in 1978.
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