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Telephone Talk => Auction Talk => Topic started by: HarrySmith on January 24, 2018, 05:24:50 PM

Title: Polly Bergen & A Mushroom
Post by: HarrySmith on January 24, 2018, 05:24:50 PM
Browsing eBay (again) I stumbled on this auction that includes a record album. It is titled "All Alone By The Telephone" by Polly Bergen. It features a picture of Polly on the cover with a WE Mushroom phone. The seller has included it with a plain old beige 500. Looks like he thinks the phone on the album is the same as his! He also states it is from 1959 and it is modular.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/232642094618
Title: Re: Polly Bergen & A Mushroom
Post by: Partyline4 on January 26, 2018, 09:47:59 PM
Cute. That's be a great idea to sell the REAL phone with that record!
Title: Re: Polly Bergen & A Mushroom
Post by: AL_as_needed on January 27, 2018, 06:53:50 AM
The intentions were there, but also looks like the handset and the phone are from two separate places based on the fading /color difference.
Title: Re: Polly Bergen & A Mushroom
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on January 27, 2018, 11:24:22 AM
I have an even better idea for an historic recreation!

Let's dress up a guy in lipstick and a curly red wig, a pink fur, and have him crouch next to the phone!

Everyone will think he raised Polly Bergen from the dead as well!
Title: Re: Polly Bergen & A Mushroom
Post by: Dennis Markham on January 27, 2018, 01:47:43 PM
The album has been mentioned here in the past:

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=12427.msg130978#msg130978

I bought one of those albums to accompany my light beige 500 U.  I have yet to hang it near the phone.  It's a good marketing idea.

~Dennis
Title: Re: Polly Bergen & A Mushroom
Post by: RotarDad on January 27, 2018, 02:24:14 PM
Of course, if we were naming the album, we would have called it "In my room, with my 'shroom", and no phone collector would mind being all alone in that situation - ask Doug R..... ;)
Title: Re: Polly Bergen & A Mushroom
Post by: AL_as_needed on January 28, 2018, 10:34:21 AM
Quote from: WEBellSystemChristian on January 27, 2018, 11:24:22 AM
I have an even better idea for an historic recreation!
Let's dress up a guy in lipstick and a curly red wig, a pink fur, and have him crouch next to the phone!
Everyone will think he raised Polly Bergen from the dead as well!

Quote from: RotarDad on January 27, 2018, 02:24:14 PM
Of course, if we were naming the album, we would have called it "In my room, with my 'shroom", and no phone collector would mind being all alone in that situation - ask Doug R..... ;)

Come on now, this is a family friendly establishment.  ;D
Title: Re: Polly Bergen & A Mushroom
Post by: Dan/Panther on January 28, 2018, 11:50:44 AM
That sure rings the old bell with me. Back when I first became interested in phones, I didn't realize the 500 and AE were not the same phone.

They aren't are they ? :o

D/P