Aug 15, 2019
The birth of an unlikely telephonic gag.
(Would that Maine’s Bryant Pond Telephone Company, the last manual hand-cranked telephonic exchange in the United States, deployed this on a random subscriber to mark the final cutover to dial service via the Oxford County Telephone and Telegraph Company [now FirstLight] in April of 1982. Or Pacific Bell to mark final cutover to dial service on Santa Catalina Island, CA in the spring of 1978, the last manual exchange in the former Bell System.)
The Sunday comic, know, is from March 7, 1971.