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Started by Sargeguy, September 23, 2014, 06:55:55 PM

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FABphones

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FABphones

Good photo Duffy. That would be a great sign for the collection, a nice focal point.

A couple here shown atop their booths.
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Quote from: FABphones on January 18, 2021, 08:20:21 AM
A couple here shown atop their booths.

I have a round one on the wall in the phone room.

Jim Stettler

Quote from: Duffy on January 18, 2021, 08:33:43 AM
I have a round one on the wall in the phone room.
In the US that logo was used on Bell  booths that were adjacent to Independent telephone companies.
At least in the SW Bell area.
Jim
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You die, you forget it all.

19and41

Quote from: FABphones on January 18, 2021, 08:20:21 AM
Good photo Duffy. That would be a great sign for the collection, a nice focal point.

A couple here shown atop their booths.

I remember seeing the square signs on red booths in GTE country.  northern Indiana and southern Michigan had a patchwork of telephone companies.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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FABphones

National Guardsman in front of smashed windows (hurricane damage). Newton Corner, Mass, business office.

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19and41

Wonder if that was the '38 hurricane?
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Key2871

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FABphones

You are correct guys. September 21, 1938.

This one should go into the Trucks thread, but as there is just about only the sign left, I'll pop it here too.

Sunderland, Mass.
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19and41

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

FABphones

A collector of  'Monochrome Phones with Sepia Tones'   ...and a Duck!
***********
Vintage Phones - 10% man made, 90% Tribble
*************

FABphones

St Austell, Cornwall, England. C. 1922.
A collector of  'Monochrome Phones with Sepia Tones'   ...and a Duck!
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HarrySmith

I give up. Where is the phone sign?
Harry Smith
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