LUCY PICS on the Telephone!!!

Kenny C · March 09, 2011, 04:09:18 PM

I got this screen shot of Lucille Ball on a 302 with one of the color kits for a black 302. I think it is ivory?

LarryInMichigan · March 09, 2011, 04:44:10 PM

I definitely think that it was ivory. Perhaps one of the forum members has that phone in their collection now.

Larry

GG · March 10, 2011, 08:21:57 AM

Though, notice that the dial fingerwheel was definitely a solid color rather than clear. Bell didn't do that. So I'm going to guess that this may have been a black one that was repainted by the studio.

Doug Rose · March 10, 2011, 01:09:07 PM

Quote from: Kenny C on March 09, 2011, 04:09:18 PM
I got this screen shot of Lucille Ball on a 302 with one of the color kits for a black 302. I think it is ivory?

Lucy ......WE 302 Clear at the Worlds Fair in 1939...Doug

LarryInMichigan · March 10, 2011, 04:40:03 PM

After another look, I see that that the handset cord is black, and it looks like the dial housing is also black, so it probably was painted.

Larry

Dennis Markham · March 10, 2011, 04:41:37 PM

To my eye that finger wheel looks like a clear one over the white porcelain dial plate. But it's hard to tell.

Doug Rose · March 10, 2011, 04:47:40 PM

Its all conjecture, I cannot get it zoomed in close enough to see for sure. Nice picture just the same. ...Doug

Dennis Markham · March 10, 2011, 05:04:01 PM

Quote from: Doug Rose on March 10, 2011, 04:47:40 PM
Its all conjecture. ...Doug

Yes, it is.

bingster · March 11, 2011, 10:04:48 AM

Looks like even the feet weren't spared. They're white, too.

Sargeguy · March 11, 2011, 07:16:19 PM

I am with Dennis. It looks like a clear finger wheel to me, especially the center.

Devansphones · October 13, 2011, 01:50:26 PM

ETHEL!!! WE'RE GOING TO EUROPE!!!

REALLY?

YES! today Ricky got a....

LUCYYYYYYYYY! I tol yu I'm no sure if I'm even gonna be in the pishur, now splain to Ethel what the minin of all this bisnis is!

jsowers · October 13, 2011, 02:11:33 PM

The first one (below) is from before I Love Lucy. I think it's from the 1940 New York World's Fair. Note the CLEAR 302. She married Desi the same year.

The second is from November, 1953. Hobie captured it for a thread on the Forum in 2009. The reason she was using a D-mount is because the switchhook is plainly visible and part of the show centered on her talking on the phone while it was hung up.

Later Lucy had a black 500 with a straight handset cord, about 1955 after they get back from Hollywood.

Lucille Ball's father was a lineman for Michigan Bell, or some other telco in Michigan. He died when she was young.

Devansphones · October 13, 2011, 10:08:36 PM

Here's some more...

Devansphones · October 14, 2011, 12:26:07 AM

HERE YE HERE YE!!! I HAVE A MISSION FOR YOU, I WAS BROWSING THE FORUM AND I NOTICED A WHILE AGO YOU GUYS DID A COLLOGE DISCUSSION SORT OF THING ABOUT OLD PHONES IN MOVIES...MY MISSION IS TO GATHER EVERY PICTURE OF LUCILLE BALL OR ANY OF THE REGULAR I LOVE LUCY CARACHTERS ( FRED, ETHEL, RICKY, LITTLE RICKY OR LUCY) ON THE PHONE... PUT IT IN THE THREAD TITLED...LUCY!!!...

THANKS!!! (

<----- SPIDERFACE)

AE_Collector · October 14, 2011, 12:53:53 AM

A noble project. Everyone else on the forum nominates you to be the "In Charge" of the project!

Now get back to the computer and find us some more pictures!

Terry

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