Telephone Ads, ’30s Style
Ephemera August 28th. 2008, 7:12amIt’s been a while since I posted any new ads, so I thought I better do just that. I’ve just added fourteen of them to the Vintage Telephone Advertisements pages, twelve of which are Bell/AT&T ads from the 1930s. These are a bit different from the other advertisements I’ve posted, representing what I like to call Bell’s “pinstripe era.” These are often black and white or single-color presentations, and typically emphasize text rather than images. The content is usually framed by a thin line, a line that got wider towards the end of the decade before disappearing entirely by 1940. Enjoy!


