Classic Rotary Phones: Repair, Refurbish, Restore Vintage Telephones

Perhaps you too have fond memories of Clutch Cargo, the circa-1959 cartoon series that featured “Syncro-Vox” (patent #2,739,505), an interesting animation technique that had “real lips” do the talking. (Some of you youngsters might have seen this technology in action on “The Adventures of Mr. Incredible and Pals” on Conan O’Brien.) One thing about Clutch Cargo that I didn’t discover until recently is that the automobiles and airplanes, particularly the airplanes, were drawn with great accuracy… they represented actual models/types of cars and planes. I’ve heard it said that the producers of the cartoon had to have been aviation enthusiasts, as the planes depicted are typically the more interesting, exotic types. I wonder if telephones were rendered with the same fidelity? When Clutch wasn’t working on his Adventure Log Book, fighting crooks or rescuing Spinner from quicksand, he might spend some of his down-time on the phone, perhaps chatting long-distance with his old pal Swampy. In this photo Clutch appears to be, ahem, “clutching” an F1 handset. So, any Clutch Cargo fans out there? Let’s hear from you!