The Miami Herald business staff with Shutts & Bowen’s founder Frank B. Shutts, second from right, seated, in 1922. Courtesy of Shutts & Bowen.
If you’ve ever wondered who made Miami’s first automatic phone call, then wonder no more. It was Frank B. Shutts, co-founder of commercial law firm Shutts & Bowen, calling his house to make sure the new phone system worked.
That’s because Shutts was president of the South Atlantic Telephone & Telegraph Co., which eventually became AT&T, and his mission was to modernize Miami’s communication services by moving away from the switchboard and creating its first telephone dial service.
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