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I work at AT&T Labs and I always get a charge out of seeing that iconic logo. I'm a bit of geek about AT&T history and often annoy my friends by pointing out the Bell symbol on manhole covers, which can be found almost anywhere in the US (and also Canada through Bell Canada).

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I get it. These companies of the past, they were titans of industry. They left their ruins behind everywhere like a lost civilization. An Ozymandias statue a thousand fold.

Among the dead in Mt Zion Cemetery is the body of a colossus. A thing so profoundly bigger than you that you don't even realize you are standing on it. But, if you look down from above at the cemetery you'll see it. A peculiar row of headstones that cuts across in a thin row diagonal to all the other headstones. This thin strip of oddly facing plots were dug exactly along the space where railroad tracks used to cut through the cemetery.

RIP NY & Flushing RR, you were bigger than us all.

"I'm a bit of geek about AT&T history and often annoy my friends by pointing out the Bell symbol ..."

https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1435981763864584201

... just scroll down ...

Then I'm sure you've seen Saul Bass' original proposal for the logo redesign. It's a 30 minute movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKu2de0yCJI

And this is the same Saul Bass that designed other iconic logos (he name drops a bunch at 7m30s) and well as doing credit sequences for directors like Hitchcock and Scorcese:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass

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