Then another hundred. Then they started with the 21 hundred series and 22 hundred series and every time another 100 phones would be added. Today we have reached the 38 hundred series which means that we have about 1,800 phones operating in San Pedro. Today San Pedro is well connected with the outside world. With my computer today, I can pick up a writer in Hawaii or Japan and converse with him live via the monitor of the computer.
Any message can go around the world at the press of a few keys of the computer keyboard.
Indeed, communication has come a long way in San Pedro. I remember my first personal telephone some 35 years ago. It consisted of 2 small tin cans of condensed milk tied to a piece of string.