I had some family near Omaha that worked at Western Electric until the end of the 80's. They made telephone materials. I want to say something with large cables. When the phone companies broke up they had lay offs.
Here's some interesting history of WE sence the 1872:
http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/westernelectric_history.html Just read there that Graybar was a spin off of WE electrical supply department.
The main web page looks like they don't have much going on:
http://www.westernelectric.com/ Tom
