Number PULEAZE! Part Four:

[jamiel]

Interesting, that quarantine ad. That company was merged/assimilated into Ohio Bell sometime subsequent to that (50 miles south in Cincinnati the Bell affiliate, Cincinnati Bell, was never assimilated)....they were the best phone system I've ever experienced when I lived there... Fascinating fact---the independent phone companies (Frontier/GTE/Windstream/…) were actually the innovators/first to market in certain parts of the business (dial phones; 911)...believe the inventor was Strowger who started Automatic Electric (which was a big manufacturer for the independents).

 

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[kd12]

Name That Phone

Two for the price of one here. The ad below is for a Frigidaire washer and dryer set from an October 1972 Reader's Digest. On the wall above the washer is a black wall phone from about the 1930's. Does anyone recognize the make? As far as I can tell, it is not a Western Electric model.

 

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Automatic Electric AE50. From the 1940's if I recall correctly.

 

[kd12]

Louis, thanks!

 

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[circlew]

AE model 50

This was made from the late 30's through the mid 50's. A similar looking wall phone, the model 35, was introduced in the early 30's. It lacks vents on the sides, and usually has the earlier type handset. The 50 was replaced by the model 90 around 1956.

I have a model 50, less the dial - just has the blank plate - as it was used with a PBX. I got it when the downtown Pogue's Dept. store closed in 1988. I found it in the subbasement. It's one of my most prized possessions.

AE made beautiful phones until they came out with the models 80 and 90.

 

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Bell Telephone System 1960

 

 

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Western Electric 1948

 

 

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[vacerator]

If all other forms

of communication ever were to fail, ham radio operators woiuld be the exception.

 

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[jamiel]

Muppets for C&P Telephone--60s

 

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Bell Telephone System 1960

 

 

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Bell System 1956

 

 

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