Verizon's $1.99 typosA shoddy business practice#technology#telephone#Verizon·mleddy.blogspot.com·Nov 19, 2009Verizon's $1.99 typos
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·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 23, 2009702–554–1465
"Take Back the Beep"A campaign to eliminate lengthy voicemail instructions#telephone·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 2, 2009"Take Back the Beep"
And then there were fourOutdoor phone booths in Manhattan#dowdyworld#technology#telephone#NewYorkCity·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jul 9, 2009And then there were four
Mary Printz, 1923-2009Obituary for telephone operator who inspired the musical Bells Are Ringing#dowdyworld#telephone·mleddy.blogspot.com·Mar 12, 2009Mary Printz, 1923-2009
Telephone exchange names on screenFrom The public Enemy (1931)#film#telephone#EXchangenames·mleddy.blogspot.com·Feb 12, 2009Telephone exchange names on screen
How to make friends by TelephoneGuidelines for the telephone user#dowdyworld#telephone·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 21, 2008How to make friends by Telephone
PLaza, PLaza, PLazaThe PLatonic telephone exchange name: stills from The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse (1938)#film#telephone#EXchangenames·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 21, 2008PLaza, PLaza, PLaza
A pocket diary and an exchange nameA little notebook and a telephone EXchange name in Deception (1946)#film#notebooks#telephone#EXchangenames·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 12, 2008A pocket diary and an exchange name
People, it's bad (Hi and Lois)How not to draw a telephone#comics#telephone#Hi&Lois·mleddy.blogspot.com·Nov 1, 2008People, it's bad (Hi and Lois)
Thrift-store telephoneSurprise! A rotary dial telephone (thanks, kids!)#telephone·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 8, 2008Thrift-store telephone
Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 4)"ATwater 0-2390, please." A scene from The Man Who Cheated Himself (1951)#film#telephone#EXchangenames·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 4, 2008Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 4)
How to dial a telephoneShort films on how to use a rotary telephone#dowdyworld#technology#telephone·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jul 8, 2008How to dial a telephone
A mystery EXchange name1938 Bell Telephone advertisement#advertising#dowdyworld#telephone#EXchangenames·mleddy.blogspot.com·Jul 8, 2008A mystery EXchange name
Old phone ringtoneMP3 to make your cell phone sound like a real phone!#dowdyworld#telephone#technology·mleddy.blogspot.com·May 14, 2008Old phone ringtone
Classic Old Telephone Ringtone? - Treo Forums | Everything Treo#telephone·everythingtreo.com·May 13, 2008Classic Old Telephone Ringtone? - Treo Forums | Everything Treo
Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 3)From Born Yesterday (1950)#dowdyworld#JudyHolliday#telephone#EXchangenames·mleddy.blogspot.com·Dec 31, 2007Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 3)
TElephone EXchange NAmes in poetryA passage from a Ron Padgett poem#poetry#RonPadgett#telephone#dowdyworld#EXchangenames·mleddy.blogspot.com·Nov 21, 2007TElephone EXchange NAmes in poetry
Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 2)A still from Baby Face (1933)#dowdyworld#film#telephone#EXchangenames·mleddy.blogspot.com·Sep 29, 2007Telephone exchange names on screen (no. 2)
Time of Day operator, April 1937Photo of an telephone operator#dowdyworld#telephone#time·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 30, 2007Time of Day operator, April 1937
No Time of Day in LAThe Time of Day service, vanishing#dowdyworld#telephone#time·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 30, 2007No Time of Day in LA
Proust: "that supernatural instrument"I.e., the telephone.#Proust#telephone·mleddy.blogspot.com·Oct 27, 2006Proust: "that supernatural instrument"
Proust: "This is the operator speaking"Excerpt from The Guermantes Way#Proust#telephone#technology·mleddy.blogspot.com·Aug 24, 2006Proust: "This is the operator speaking"