Media studies: file drawers, notebook, EXchange name
There are many ways to enjoy television.
EXchange names on screen
DUnkirk and MAdison, in Down Three Dark Streets, (dir. Arnold Laven, 1954).
Subway payphone, 1932
Ephemeral New York shows us what a New York City subway payphone looked like in 1932 .
Long-distance
Peanuts, 1970.
“The old-school landline telephone”
Diane Schirf writes about a relic.
Hours of outage
“Please enter the ten-digit telephone number you are calling in reference to.”
EXchange names on screen
Let’s say OXford, OLympia, MAdison, CRestview.
Still life with telephone
Yes, that phone is about to ring.
An EXchange name on screen
YO.
Link woes
The New York Times reports that the Link, meant to replace the public telephone in New York City, isn’t working out so well.
Is a phone a “mythical device”?
No. But what about “magical”?
An EXchange name on screen
Also vertical files, wooden file trays, &c. From Armored Car Robbery.
Diane Schirf’s pay phones
Photographs.
Battery life
Tips and myths about smartphone battery life.
Pocket notebook sighting
An anonymous detective and his notebook, as seen in Pushover (dir. Richard Quine, 1954).
EXchange names on screen
From The Blue Dahlia (dir. George Marshall, 1946).
New old phone booths
Refurbished replacements for Manhattan’s four streetside telephone booths.
Overheard
On a phone, loudly .
An EXchange name on screen
From East Side, West Side (dir. Mervyn LeRoy, 1949).
New York’s public telephones
Ian Frazier writes about the public telephone of the near future in New York City: the Link.
Scam diction
We received our first “Internal Revenue Service” phone call this morning. Is that because we’re reading The Pale King ?
“Fo-wer, fi-yiv, sev-ven, ni-yen”
From Gay Talese’s New York: A Serendipiter’s Journey.
Dowdy-world miracle
Talking on the telephone. From Beverly Cleary’s Fifteen.
Calling Henry
In the Henry-world, all telephones are landlines.
Force of Evil
Telephones, pencils, and notebooks, oh my.
Telephone exchange names on screen
From Dick Tracy’s Dilemma.
Telephone EXchange names on screen
From Tension: DAwson and FAirfield.
Telephone booths
A Life photo, 1961.
One more from Dreyfuss
The Princess telephone.
Dial D for Dreyfuss
Telephones.