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Telephone Talk => Telephone Historic Pictures, Signs, Directories, Advertising & Ephemera => Topic started by: Fabius on December 19, 2017, 10:38:41 PM

Title: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: Fabius on December 19, 2017, 10:38:41 PM
Must be a really understanding wife to allow that sign to be put there.

https://tinyurl.com/ydbgx27m
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on December 19, 2017, 10:54:47 PM
Quote from: Fabius on December 19, 2017, 10:38:41 PM
Must be a really understanding wife to allow that sign to be put there.

Why do you think it ended up on eBay? ;D
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: Fabius on December 19, 2017, 10:58:40 PM
Quote from: WEBellSystemChristian on December 19, 2017, 10:54:47 PM
Why do you think it ended up on eBay? ;D

Because that's where I found it?
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on December 19, 2017, 11:04:00 PM
I was emphasizing the "understanding wife" part. She must not be that understanding if she made him put it on eBay.

I apologize. I'm pretty tired, and my humor must be a bit off... :-[
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: LarryInMichigan on December 20, 2017, 07:15:54 AM
How do you know that she is understanding?  Perhaps she is the one who is selling the sign (because the husband didn't mount it in the basement).

Larry
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: Pourme on December 20, 2017, 08:21:40 AM
Quote from: WEBellSystemChristian on December 19, 2017, 10:54:47 PM
Why do you think it ended up on eBay? ;D

I got your joke....Made me laugh!
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: Doug Rose on December 20, 2017, 08:26:25 AM
My guess, as I have done it, a picture was removed and the sign attached to the screw that was mounting the picture. Pic was taken of the sign and the picture was back up.....Doug
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: LarryInMichigan on December 20, 2017, 08:40:49 AM
Quote from: Doug Rose on December 20, 2017, 08:26:25 AM
My guess, as I have done it, a picture was removed and the sign attached to the screw that was mounting the picture. Pic was taken of the sign and the picture was back up.....Doug

That is the most plausible explanation but also the least fun.


Larry
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: Fabius on December 20, 2017, 01:58:28 PM
Quote from: WEBellSystemChristian on December 19, 2017, 11:04:00 PM
I was emphasizing the "understanding wife" part. She must not be that understanding if she made him put it on eBay.

I apologize. I'm pretty tired, and my humor must be a bit off... :-[

Opps, my bad. Sorry.
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: Fabius on December 20, 2017, 02:10:00 PM
Quote from: Doug Rose on December 20, 2017, 08:26:25 AM
My guess, as I have done it, a picture was removed and the sign attached to the screw that was mounting the picture. Pic was taken of the sign and the picture was back up.....Doug

That looks like what happened. In looking at the pictures I can see the sign is being held in place by only one nail.
Title: Re: Strange Place for a Telephone Sign
Post by: TelePlay on December 20, 2017, 02:20:24 PM
Yes, one stout nail with a big head.

Being the time of the year when one puts a tree up, here's what the sign would have looked like if the lights had been turned on.
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