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Started by paul-f, March 20, 2023, 12:14:14 AM

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Your Phone Could be Minding the House.
c. 1982.
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FABphones

'Give the Phone that will always be the Center of Conversation'.
Noteworthy magazine advert.
c 1981.
A collector of  'Monochrome Phones with Sepia Tones'   ...and a Duck!
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Vintage Phones - 10% man made, 90% Tribble
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Westrex

Apparently some Sears stores in the 80's had Bell Phone Center displays. This ad from 1983 shows the displays at timestamp 0:12.
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Kellogg Kitt

Quote from: Westrex on January 05, 2024, 06:41:01 PMApparently some Sears stores in the 80's had Bell Phone Center displays. This ad from 1983 shows the displays at timestamp 0:12.

I do not remember seeing any Bell Phone Centers in Sears back then.  Maybe only some stores had them.  I bought a Western Electric 2500 set from Sears in (coincidentally) 1983, but it was just regular merchandise, not in a Phone Center department.

I also got from Sears (about 1987) one of those touch-on lamps seen in the video (0:08).  Every so often, it would stop working, and I would have to get a new module from Sears and open up the bottom of the lamp and replace it.