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Fascinating to see a couple recent photos and find out what happened to this place.

The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex is something that I find myself unexpectedly stumbling over on the Internet every few years or so. First time some circa 10 years ago, when they uploaded a 1973 era training video for the computing services to `AT&T tech channel`:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYiktO0D64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9aVOIuKVUc



Raquel Welch taped up on the System 370:

https://youtu.be/HMYiktO0D64?t=339

I think it's this photo:

https://imgur.com/a/a0wK4sR

Her photo is the only personal item I see anywhere in the two videos.


its essentially been turned into a funny looking mall since 2019

https://bell.works/new-jersey/explore/




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