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Gorgeous Mid-Century Telephone Ads: 31 Days of Vintage Home Decor Ads (Day 27)

Gorgeous Mid-Century Telephone Ads: 31 Days of Vintage Home Decor Ads (Day 27)

28 Oct

This post was most recently updated on September 23rd, 2019

Sorry for the delay in posting Day 27 of my “31 Days” series on vintage home decor advertising, but I literally broke my blog.

{I went snooping around in the back areas of my site where I shouldn’t have, and played around with a bit of code, just cause I’m curious like that, lol.  Um, BIG ooops. Who knew a few misplaced punctuation marks could break a web site?!?  Well, apparently, coders know that.  And thank god for them.  They fixed it all up for me, but only after an hour or two of cardiac arrest.  Oh the joys of owning a self-hosted blog!}  But I digress..

1950s Ad for Bell, Source: wellmedicated.com

As a little celebration that my blog crisis was averted, tonight I’ve got some absolutely gorgeous late 50s to late 60s telephone ads.

Telephones might not be considered home decor accessories today (in most homes anyway), but they were all the rage in mid-century homes.

This first ad is from the late 50s (maybe 1959?). Long before the invention of cordless phones or Blackberries, I bet the idea of having a second telephone line in your kitchen was a real luxury to the ’50s Housewife!

The ad markets the benefits of “a kitchen extension line” as a way to better run your home. It also touts the fact that a pot won’t boil over because you won’t have to leave the kitchen to take a call.  Well, yah, but who’s watching those kids lick the beater while Mrs. Happy Homemaker gossips with  her BFF, lol?!?

I don’t know about you, but I am totally digging that pink phone.  So pretty.

And speaking of pretty phones, check out this next mid-century ad from Western Electric (below).  Aren’t those pretty pastel colors just stunning?  I wish phones like that were still widely available today.  Instead, we have to settle for boring old black or silver.

The copy in the ad states that two-thirds of all new phones that Western Electric would produce that year would be colored, while only one third would be traditional black. So cool!

It’s also kinda neat that the ad shows which hues were the most popular at the time.  Over a quarter of consumers liked that icy blue.  That’s my choice too, followed by pink!

Finally…in my web travels, I also tracked down this absolutely fabulous poster which shows how telephones evolved over time up until about 1969.

1969 Telephone Poster, Source: www.porticus.org/bell/the_att_telephone_story.html

That final 1969 ad on the poster totally cracks me up…

The copy reads “Some day you will see who you are talking to, and let them see you”.

(Yes you will, and it’s called ‘Skype’, teehee.)

Hope you enjoyed these as much as I did!

~Kerri

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By Kerri, October 28, 2011, Filed Under: Uncategorized

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Kerri Roche is the voice behind A Pop of Pretty, a Canadian-based home decorating blog, where she shares her love of modern cottage and coastal style, from the island of Newfoundland. Kerri is a lifelong interiors lover and an avid home enthusiast. She holds an MBA and Bachelor degree in Commerce (Marketing). Her blog is a creative outlet where she loves to inspire other style seeking home lovers with design and renovation ideas, DIY home decor tutorials, and shopping tips as she decorates her own suburban family home and coastal cottage - all while juggling a busy young family, including a globe-trotting husband, 3 busy kids (including twins), and a scrappy little Havanese, named Finnigan.

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  1. Ashley says

    October 28, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    I LOVE old ads! I just put up a gallery wall in my kitchen, actually, using vintage ads as the main contributors.
    I would love an actual old phone on display in our kitchen. Our house was built in 1899 so it’d fit in fine!

    • Kerri says

      October 28, 2011 at 8:31 pm

      Displaying vintage ads in a gallery wall is an awesome idea, Ashley! Two of my favorite things are vintage ads and gallery walls, lol. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you’ll pop by again! ~Kerri

  2. Alana says

    October 28, 2011 at 6:32 am

    I once held one of those 1937 phones. I think it weighed ten pounds! Boy, was it heavy! I seriously love it.
    You know, a long, long time ago, (maybe 1978?) I went to Disney World where, in the Land of Tomorrow pavillion they showed a teenager playing a record–and the band was playing the same song on a projection screen. At the same time! It was positively revolutionary at the time. Of course, I haven’t seen too many rock bands release tunes via dvd–but MTV was a step along the way, for sure!

    • Kerri says

      October 28, 2011 at 3:28 pm

      Funny how quickly things change, isn’t it?!? Thanks so much for stopping by each day, Alana! I really appreciate it!~Kerri

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