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BilSabab@lemmy.world to Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days ago

AT&T ad, 1979

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AT&T ad, 1979

BilSabab@lemmy.world to Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days ago
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    I miss phones that had personality.

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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    We had the Mickey phone! It had no internals though. I’m not sure how my parents got it or where it ended up but you only rented phones back in that time. ATT took the internals out because it was no longer being paid for. I’ll have to ask my dad the story of how/why they got to keep Mickey though.

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    Choose from yellow, rust, white or dark brown?! The tyranny of choice!

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      This reads like Henry Ford making fun of other car manufacturers shipping cars with more color than black.

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    Is that a young Julia Louis-Dryfuss?

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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    That kitchen 🤣 I bet it’s impossible to remove the years of cooking smell from those bricks

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      The bricks are the best part of the kitchen by far

      • jagermo@feddit.org
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        I’d take those copper pans and pots. They are too big for the stove.

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    I think the pun about choosing a conversation piece is great. Is the ad saying not to choose the gimmicky ones that are inset, or are they different options?

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      They’re being shown as different options to choose from.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    My mom would only buy Southwestern Bell telephones and we didn’t even live in the Southwest

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    That’s right; go to a pay phone and blow a whistle that you got from a cereal box to make your call.

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      i missed the era. but we used to blow whistle into phones just to torture the unfortunate ones.

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        You can still rarely find payphones, saw one somewhere and it’s like going to a museum and seeing a dinosaur.

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