10/11/10

Remember phone books?
















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22 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 11, 2010 at 11:33 AM

    I love that Rochester phone book!

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  2. UnknownOctober 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM

    Las Vegas 1975 is fantastic

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  3. H3NR7October 11, 2010 at 2:29 PM

    Growing up, I remembered a phone book we had. It was huge. The largest and densest book I had ever seen in my young life. A square hunk of a book with a brown cover and a Winslow Homer painting on the front, "Snap the Whip." A row of boys playing on a field. Growing up in the city, I didn't see much farms. I wanted to be there. In that painting. Having fun in the Summer. Probably the first time I experienced that a book cover design could transport me to a place I wanted to be.

    I couldn't finding the telephone book. But here's the painting:
    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YKO2gL-hVDc/TCAetz1274I/AAAAAAAAEyk/aQ-scKFPZUI/s1600/Snap+the+Whip1.jpg

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  4. John GallOctober 11, 2010 at 2:58 PM

    H3NR7, Odd choice of painting for a city phone book. Most of phone books seem to use either geographically correct imagery or generic telephone imagery.

    Perhaps its my proximity to the place, but the photo of the off-the-hook phone on the Newark book makes me think there's a dead body lying next to it. I like Vegas 75 too.

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  5. Curriculum VitaeOctober 13, 2010 at 8:58 AM

    Marietta and Vicinity is also very crime novel. These are fantastic.

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  6. slocumnavigatorOctober 14, 2010 at 5:42 PM

    Oahu makes me want to open and read it...like a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel.

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  7. Bill DouglasOctober 15, 2010 at 7:13 PM

    Strangely drawn to Bakersfield. Great song. Great phone book cover.

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  8. Paul PiescikOctober 18, 2010 at 3:06 PM

    Around '76-'80, Rochester had a nice colorful cover -- hot air balloons shot from a chopper circling them!

    However, the next thing you new, every local business, especially car dealers, had TV ads shot from a circling chopper.

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  9. PlayboyOctober 21, 2010 at 6:19 AM

    Are they still exists or they come in the category of Dinosaurs?????

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