“So by the ’70s or the ’80s, Bell is not doing so well business-wise. There aren’t as many people that are working there.”
Assuming she’s referring to “Holmdel” when she refers to “there”, this is not correct. She’s off by a decade. In 1985, they were tripling up in two person offices at Holmdel. Shrink started at Holmdel and other Bell Labs locations in the mid 1990s. Imagine seeing your favorite Silicon Valley location totally empty with grass growing in the cracks of the parking lot. That was Holmdel in the mid 2000s.
