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Telephone exchange names on screen: Naked City (4)
The TW exchange.
telephone  television 
12 days ago by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen: Naked City (3)
A GRamercy payphone.
telephone  television 
12 days ago by M.Leddy
Tim Johnson on the line
Tim Johnson (R, Illinois-15), who retires this year, is the subject of a New York Times profile that emphasized above all his habit of telephoning his constituents.
politics  telephone 
4 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Recently updated
Another excerpt from the 1962 pamphlet manifesto of the Anti-Digit Dialing League.
dowdyworld  telephone 
5 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Phones Are For People
I am now the proud custodian of a copy of the Anti-Digit Dialing League’s pamphlet manifesto Phones Are For People (1962).
dowdyworld  telephone 
5 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Phone manners
From the 1940 New York City telephone directories, pictures show best, fair, and poor distances between moth and mouthpiece.
dowdyworld  telephone 
6 weeks ago by M.Leddy
The Anti-Digit Dialing League
A short-lived movement that arose in 1962 that opposed “creeping numeralism” and fought a losing battle to preserve the use of telephone exchange names.
dowdyworld  telephone 
6 weeks ago by M.Leddy
David Schubert, TR5-3718
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory. David Schubert (1913–1946) is a great modern American poet, though his work is still relatively unknown.
poetry  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Charles Reznikoff, CH3-0065
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
poetry  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
John Hammond, GR7-7967
The critic and music producer, in the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
jazz  music  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Billie Holiday, ED4-4058
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
BillieHoliday  jazz  music  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, CH2-5097
The photographer Rudy Burckhardt and the dance critic and poet Edwin Denby, in the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
EdwinDenby  photography  poetry  RudyBurckhardt  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Helen Cornell, FL7-7653-J
Joseph Cornell’s home address, in the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
art  JosephCornell  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Coleman Hawkins, ED4-2697
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
ColemanHawkins  jazz  music  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Dwight Macdonald, GR3-0835
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
DwightMacdonald  telephone 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
Thomas Merton, CH2-0476
In the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
telephone  ThomasMerton 
7 weeks ago by M.Leddy
The “FaceTime Facelift”
For readers of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), life is once again imitating art.
DavidFosterWallace  telephone 
march 2012 by M.Leddy
I envy Mary Richards
“I have been watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Me-TV, and I must confess: I envy Mary Richards.”
technology  telephone  television  typewriter 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
PHONE SCAM
I had to laugh when I saw the ID for this incoming call.
telephone 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen: KLondike
A real KLondike?
telephone 
january 2012 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen: Naked City
Looking up the life on the man who's name is on a sign, Loft for Rent.
signage  telephone  television 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Mail chutes and phone booths
Diane Schirf writes about “relics.”
dowdyworld  mail  telephone 
december 2011 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen: Naked City
GRamercy 7–9166.
telephone  television 
november 2011 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen
What makes Blast of Silence (dir. Allen Baron, 1961) compelling is atmosphere, external and internal: a bleak vision of New York and the bleaker vision of human character that unfolds in Lionel Stander’s voiceover.
film  telephone 
october 2011 by M.Leddy
EXchange names on screen
OXford 6262, from My Favorite Wife (1940).
film  telephone 
september 2011 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen
In Sweet Smell of Success.
film  telephone 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Hi and Bell
A Bell Telephone sign in Hi and Lois.
comics  Hi&Lois  telephone 
july 2011 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen
In This Gun for Hire (dir. Frank Tuttle, 1942).
film  telephone 
june 2011 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen
From Murder, My Sweet
film  telephone 
may 2011 by M.Leddy
"I Can't Find My Phone"
Handy website calls your cell.
technology  telephone 
november 2010 by M.Leddy
Virignia Heffernan on the telephone
The disappearing analog telephone call
analog  dowdyworld  telephone 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Wooden phone booths
Long may they stand.
dowdyworld  telephone 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
An extra charge for Touch-Tone calling
God Bless the Phone Company
telephone 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Verizon Wireless refunds
Re: the infamous $1.99 key
technology  telephone  Verizon 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Streaming music, 1910
Phonograph records played through telephones
music  technology  telephone 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Write five sentences on the telephone
Doing the world's homework, again
sentences  telephone 
october 2010 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen: Side Street
A great, relatively unknown film
film  telephone 
september 2010 by M.Leddy
The Lonely Phone Booth
For wistful 4- to 8-year-olds
books  children  NewYorkCity  telephone 
september 2010 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen
From The Little Giant (1933)
film  telephone 
august 2010 by M.Leddy
Telephone Brand Agar-Agar
From Thailand, in a beautiful package
art  design  telephone 
july 2010 by M.Leddy
Orange telephone art
Retro telephone, orange
dowdyworld  technology  telephone 
july 2010 by M.Leddy
Infinite Jest, telephony
“Video telephony” v. “good old voice-only telephoning”
DavidFosterWallace  fiction  telephone  technology 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
In defense of the telephone book
Voices in the wilderness, NYC
analog  digital  NewYorkCity  paper  telephone 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
Goodbye, White Pages?
No NYC White Pages?
analog  digital  NewYorkCity  paper  telephone 
may 2010 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen
CHelsea, from The Dark Corner (1946)
dowdyworld  film  telephone 
march 2010 by M.Leddy
ELbo 875
A telephone exchange name on screen
film  telephone 
january 2010 by M.Leddy
Verizon data charges
Getting the charges dropped
technology  telephone  Verizon 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Pogue v. Verizon, continued
David Pogue keeping up the good fight
technology  telephone  Verizon 
december 2009 by M.Leddy
Verizon's $1.99 typos
A shoddy business practice
technology  telephone  Verizon 
november 2009 by M.Leddy
702–554–1465
"My best advice: call your local or almost local paper(s), describe what’s happening, and ask that your number be removed."
advertising  telephone 
august 2009 by M.Leddy
"Take Back the Beep"
A campaign to eliminate lengthy voicemail instructions
telephone 
august 2009 by M.Leddy
And then there were four
Outdoor phone booths in Manhattan
dowdyworld  NewYork  technology  telephone 
july 2009 by M.Leddy
Mary Printz, 1923-2009
Obituary for telephone operator who inspired the musical Bells Are Ringing
dowdyworld  telephone 
march 2009 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen
From The public Enemy (1931)
film  telephone 
february 2009 by M.Leddy
How to make friends by Telephone
Guidelines for the telephone user
dowdyworld  telephone 
december 2008 by M.Leddy
PLaza, PLaza, PLaza
The PLatonic telephone exchange name: stills from The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse (1938)
film  telephone 
december 2008 by M.Leddy
A pocket diary and an exchange name
A little notebook and a telephone EXchange name in Deception (1946)
film  notebooks  telephone 
december 2008 by M.Leddy
People, it's bad (Hi and Lois)
How not to draw a telephone
comics  Hi&Lois  telephone 
november 2008 by M.Leddy
Thrift-store telephone
Surprise! A rotary dial telephone (thanks, kids!)
telephone 
august 2008 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 4)
"ATwater 0-2390, please." A scene from The Man Who Cheated Himself (1951)
film  telephone 
august 2008 by M.Leddy
How to dial a telephone
Short films on how to use a rotary telephone
dowdyworld  technology  telephone 
july 2008 by M.Leddy
A mystery EXchange name
1938 Bell Telephone advertisement
advertising  dowdyworld  PopularMechanics  telephone 
july 2008 by M.Leddy
Old phone ringtone
MP3 to make your cell phone sound like a real phone!
dowdyworld  telephone  technology  ringtone 
may 2008 by M.Leddy
Classic Old Telephone Ringtone? - Treo Forums | Everything Treo
telephone 
may 2008 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 3)
From Born Yesterday (1950)
dowdyworld  JudyHolliday  telephone 
december 2007 by M.Leddy
TElephone EXchange NAmes in poetry
A passage from a Ron Padgett poem
poetry  RonPadgett  telephone  dowdyworld 
november 2007 by M.Leddy
Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 2)
A still from Baby Face (1933)
dowdyworld  film  telephone 
september 2007 by M.Leddy
Time of Day operator, April 1937
Photo of an telephone operator
dowdyworld  telephone  time 
august 2007 by M.Leddy
No Time of Day in LA
The Time of Day service, vanishing
dowdyworld  telephone  time 
august 2007 by M.Leddy
Proust: "that supernatural instrument"
I.e., the telephone.
Proust  telephone 
october 2006 by M.Leddy
Proust: "This is the operator speaking"
Excerpt from The Guermantes Way
Proust  telephone  technology 
august 2006 by M.Leddy

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