Telephone – Fists and .45s!

PEP Stories, April, 1934

April 1924 edition of PEP Stories, Cover by Earle Bergey

…by telephone!
1945 Cover for Bell Systems instruction book on how to use a telephone.

Instructions for using a telephone in 1945

Some of my friends in the telephone industry will surly smile at some of the references in this illustration.

Art by Lawon Wood

Map showing the world-wide extent of telephone service in 1935

Call-Girl by Conald Lueger. Cover art by Gil Elvgren, 1961

All the Blood Money Can Buy

… Light up an Old Gold

Old Gold Cigarette ad illustration, 1935 by George Petty

Kissing by telephone will be as easy as talking when, Jerome Meyer of Baltimore gets his new invention installed in every home.