Summer 1997: Surfing by the Sea
Anecdotes
Anecdotes & testimonies
Memories, stories and details shared by those who knew the RTT.
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A memory from the job, a story from a worksite, the name of a forgotten colleague: every testimony adds to the RTT's memory.
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Do you have an anecdote to share?
A memory from the job, a story from a worksite, the name of a forgotten colleague: every testimony adds to the RTT's memory.
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July 1968 Like many children whose dad or mom worked at the R.T.T., I, too, spent a month there on vacation when I was 7 years old. While we were playing, another child pulled my glasses off and threw them on the ground.I couldn’t see anything anymore—everything was blurry—but very quickly a counselor was standing next to me. She took me by the arm, and we went inside. A little later, a man dressed in black and wearing a kepi came in. He was a driver for the R.T.T. Together with the counselor, we were driven to an ophthalmologist in Veurne. Later, we went to the optician’s, where I got new glasses with the correct lenses. The R.T.T. paid for everything. And my parents were notified by phone about what had happened.
At the beginning of my career, I worked for a few months in the viewing and listening fees department.
In 1957, the couple's parents received 52 luxury telegrams on their wedding day. Each telegram was prepared at the Aalst telegraph office.
As a longtime employee of ATEA, I wrote not only several books about ATEA, but also one on the history of telecommunications in Belgium from its very beginnings (1877) through 1990. See https://www.kulentuur.be/telefoniegeschiedenis/index.htm