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#1: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on Jul 5, 2016

oh yeah bell :)

Nice one, Norma!

AT & T's first logo. AT&T was actually founded by the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell himself, in 1876. The bell is a nod to their famous creator, Alexander Graham Bell. The bell was painted a pleasing shade of blue to represent the future that AT&T strived to work toward. This logo attained an incredible recognition rate within the United States and was unchanged for years.

Shipping your box of sunshine by carrier pigeon, Travis. Sorry it's such a tiny box. It's all he could carry.

I first found that this logo belonged to AT&T which surprised me. But they used it after acquiring Bell who used it first.

Thank you, Tom K

Great aha! moment with this one. Fun puz, Norma.

Well done Norma. I wonder how many of you know that Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian. He was born in Brantford Ontario same small city as The Great One Wayne Gretzky. :)

Thank you, Teresa and Aldege and thanks for the info, Aldege.

Ah, good ol' Ma Bell

That was long before the days when long distance became essentially free. I had a girlfriend who lived about 25 miles away, and I spent so much each month calling her long distance that I couldn't afford to buy a car to actually go see her

I called a friend I had met in college who lived a couple of miles away and I did not realize it was long distance. My parents were furious.

This logo looks beautiful in pixels

Thank you, JT.

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lol JoDeen. :)

One of my favorite songs. :)

I remember rotary dial phones. I remember dialing seven digits to get a number in the same area code. I remember dialing the area code + the number to get a number out of the area code (without dialing the "one" first). I also remember when we started dialing the leading "one". I'm sorry, I do not remember this logo.

Darn, I came in too late to make a Ma Bell comment, so here's an article by Uncle Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

Susan, do you remember when we had two Alpha letters at the beginning of our telephone number? Mine was WO for Woodland.

I think that I remember a time when you didn't actually own your phone. It was the property of Ma Bell and you rented it.

You are right, Brian. I can remember that. Here's an article from the NY Times Dec. 1982: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/16/business/new-era-for-the-telephone-ownership-replacing-rental.html?pagewanted=all

Heh, at our cottage we still rent a rotary dial phone from Bell Canada. It's actually cheaper to rent, because if we switched to a phone of our own we would lose the much cheaper party line. When we first got the party line, there were about 10 phones on the line. They had 5 different ring cadences, but only half of them would ring. (The phone system would use either a positive or negative ring signal to cause only half of the phones to ring - that why you couldn't switch to using a standard phone and had to use the rented phone.) It been well over a decade since there were any other parties on the "party line" - they long ago stopped allowing people to get a party line and only those who already had one could keep it, everyone else has had their cottage get a new owner and had to get off the party line over the years. When we first got the phone, we could call other phones on the same exchange dialling only 5 digits (and the first digits were always 78 - it was a small exchange). The full number was 657-8xxx but you only needed that if you were calling in from somewhere else.

What an interesting blast from the past. We did not have a party line, but had friends who did and could not talk to them long or they would be accused of hogging the line.

Did not do. Look too symmetrical. I don't enjoy those.

I grew up in a samll town where you only needed to dial 5 digits: 5-3227. Our three digit prefix was 275, but if you asked someone what their number was they would tell you "Bridge 5-3227" Bridge was for the B and R that were associated with the 2 and 7.

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Did you know that you could "dial" a rotary phone without using the dial? You simply pressed the hangup switch very quickly, as many times as the number you want, pausing in between. So clik-clik-clik, pause, clik-clik, pause, clik-clik-clik-clik-clik-clik, pause, would be 326. I bet it still works (if you could ever find a rotary phone anywhere).

Interesting. Did not know that, Bill. But too late now to try it.

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He lived in Canada for a year. I don't think he could even apply for citizenship. Greatzky is definitely Canadian. Montreal should not have beaten him in 1993... It started a Cup Curse for the whole country!!!

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