Kelley's Personal Communications

Recently married and unemployed near the end of the Depression in 1936, Max Kelley began a one man telephone answering service that has grown over sixty years to be the biggest family owned & operated telephone answering service in the nation. But in the early years, the business was often on the brink of financial disaster. With one telephone, desk, and his cot all in the same office in the former 519 White Building at fourth and Union in Seattle, L. M. Max Kelley opened shop. He worked 24 hours per day, seven days per week as a telephone operator, message taker, janitor, president, bookkeeper.