{"id":34300,"date":"2026-06-05T01:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=34300"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:19:12","slug":"action-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/action-central\/","title":{"rendered":"action central"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34301\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/toll-board-c1959.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34301\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34301\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/toll-board-c1959-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">action central &#8211; a c1959 Toll (long distance) Board &#8211; much like a call centre these days but manned by skilled technicians<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The photo at left is too new (about 67 years old) to be collectible. An old photo of any industrial process is of interest to a collector &#8211; the older the better. This is a photo of the telephone company toll board a few years after the Toll Area was formed here in eastern Canada. At the time, the telephone as a retail enterprise was less than 80 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of old photos are portraits, usually taken in a studio setting making the industry and outdoor photos of the same period very rare and sought after today.<\/p>\n<p>Our 2026 events had and will have many interesting items for those interested in collecting, using and researching our favourite art form &#8211; photography. Those of us who grew up in the digital world missed decades and decades of photography in which serious skill was required to even capture a scene, let alone catch an appealing setting.<\/p>\n<p>Our next event this year is our outdoors Trunk Sale, July 12th, on the grounds of the Legion Hall #101 in Long Branch, where we host our auctions. Details will be pinned on this site later in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The photo at left is too new (about 67 years old) to be collectible. An old photo of any industrial process is of interest to a collector &#8211; the older the better. This is a photo of the telephone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/action-central\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[220,388],"class_list":["post-34300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-photos","tag-trunk-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34304,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34300\/revisions\/34304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}