Auction 54 - 1958 WE U500 in Pink

[Kenny C]

i want a black one (realy any color) anyone know where i could buy one besides e-bay?

[Dan]

I got one from my Aunt and one from a flea-antique show.

Kenny, I am going to the Cincinnati phone show this Saturday. Private message me your price range and phone (or cell) and color priorities , such as Black>Blue>Green> pink. If I find one in your range, I'll text you or call you.

[bingster]

You can also post that you want one on one of the club yahoo lists.  If anybody has one they'll let go, they'll let you know.

[Kenny C]

652 and some change it went up 152 dollars in like 10 seconds

[Shovelhead]

$721.27

[bingster]

So by my reckoning, that makes HarrySmith the winner of this week's auction contest!  Congratulations Harry!

Anybody on the forum get this gem?

[McHeath]

Congrads Harry! 

I would like to say it's on the way to me, but alas and alack. 

[AE_Collector]

Anybody on the forum get this gem?

Yup.....
(not me though)

Terry

[HarrySmith]

I thought if I win the contest I get the phone

[McHeath]

Oh you do Harry, you can print out a picture of it and place it right there on your desk.

[bingster]

You'll have to make a "brrrrrrriiiinggg brrrrriiiinnnnggg" sound when you want it to ring, though.

[Adam]

My first post!  Hello everyone!

(311) 555-2368 was also the number printed on number cards in Non-Functional demo phones made by Western Electric and distributed by the Bell System.  I have a Princess non-functional demo phone and it's number card looks EXACTLY like that, including the font used for the phone number.

I'm not saying the 500U phone was a non-working demo, but it may have been some kind of sales demo phone or used in some other official Bell System capacity.

-Dave Haber
Massapequa Telephone
C*NET 1-798-7619

[Phonesrfun]

Hi Dave, and welcome to the forum!  I hope you enjoy it here.  I have read a lot of your posts in the other forums, and I am on C*Net too.

[HarrySmith]

Hey Dave, welcome
Good to see you here!