~ Seagram’s V.O. Canadian Whisky, 1944
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“Your Facsimile Newspaper of Tomorrow!
Ready for you when you wake up, your newspaper of the future will be printed through the night - in tabloid size, on a continuous roll. You will bring yourself up-to-the-minute on the highlights of the news…by seeing what is happening on the television screen of the same machine.”
~ New Departure Ball Bearings, 1956
“TOMORROW: Get your travel information, accommodations, and tickets in an instant - electronically! …. When Trip-a-matic becomes a reality, its designers will look to New Departure for ball bearings of unerring accuracy…”(via vintascope)
~ Bell Telephone Magazine, 1966
via internet archive
“We have learned that a computer is not just another piece of hardware, a bigger and better desk top calculating machine.”
~ Sausalito News, April 17, 1909
via California Digital Newspaper Collection
“All of the material needed to build the very best rural telephone line will cost you and your neighbors only about as much as two or three sheep.”
~ The Telephone and How We Use It, 1951
via Classic Rotary Phones
“You do not have to shout. Speak as though the other person were in the same room.”
~ Parents Magazine, December 1956
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“Then when you spend extra hours in the kitchen, you can still run your household and visit family and friends without neglecting cookie baking or candy making.”
~ Bell Telephone ad, 1958
via Dennis Markham’s Classic Rotary Phones
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“Every NO VACANCY sign kept reminding me what a chump I was for not calling ahead somewhere for a reservation.”
~ Scribner’s magazine, 1909
~ Bell Telephone System, National Geographic Magazine, March 1958
via Modern Mechanix
“A minute from now you can be having a happy time.”
~ Independent Telephone Company, Seattle city directory, p. 89; 1905
via University of Washington Libraries
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Note: AT&T used a similar advertisement in 1966
