Sewickley Herald

              WEARING A CROWN and a pink taffeta gown, the 1984 Quaker Valley Prom Queen is a delighted Nancy Johns, shown above with her escort, Edward Gottlieb. Nancy, a senior, was chosen by a vote of the male members of the Senior Glass. Traditionally, the school’s junior class fete the seniors with a prom, and this year was no exception. For more pictures of the event, held Friday, May. 4, see Page 5.	(Photo by Fritz Wasco)
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With the AT&T divestiture, the phone business has been in the news a lot lately.
Well, here’s some news on the local level, Which has been affected by the shake-up, too.
For starters, since Bell Telephone did hot get the phone-store business by terms of the divestiture, the Sewickley phone-store on Green Street has closed.
According to Harry C. Bradley, residence office manager, at the Rochester business office, Quaker Valley customers will have to go elsewhere to get their telephones from now on. Customers will also have to look elsewhere to get their phones repaired.
“You’re on your own,” Bradley said. However, he noted, new phone stores not owned by Bell are opening up in the area. So are individually owned “fix-it” shops for phones.
Bell’s Green Street facility, located in a building owned by Green International, was Bell’s last expansion move in the Sewickley area. The Beil center on Green Streeet opened in October 1976.
Bell’s lease on that site does not expire until 1986, Bradley said, and he does not know what Bell’s plans will be there.
Administrative personnel from Green Street have been transferred to Bell offices in Pittsburgh’s Northside.
Describing the recent changes in Sewickley, Bradley said, “Basically, there is no vocational involvement. The payroll remains the same.
“No one became unemployed as a result of the changes.”
’ However, as a result of the changes, Sewickley’s oldest telephone facility has been phased out.
. The Bell Telephone Building at Street and Centennial Avenue, which is
owned by Bell, is having all operations housed there moved to Bellevue, service center, was constructed in 1898, with additions done in 1922 and 1933.
Bell has also abandoned its garage at Chadwick Street and moved operations housed their to the FlaUgherty Run garage in Moon Township. The Sewickley Ideation served as a maintenance and installation facility, servicing not only Sewickley but surrounding areas.
The lease on the Chadwick Street site is up at the end of 1984.
" Bradley said there afe no changes planned for the ceutral office at 621 Beaver Street, which was opened in 1961.
Accounts for Sewickley will still be handled by the Rochester business office, as before.
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