It's National Telephone Day!Jamestown’s very first long distance telephone call, without the aid of an operator, was placed to Lucille Ball by her friends Marion VanVlack and Pauline Lopus. The event made the local newspaper in a headline that announced, “Lucy Asks For Swedish Rye Bread in DDD Call”. The article read: ’Lucille Ball sends her love to all her friends here. And in the next breath she asks about chances to get some good Swedish rye bread. It took only 30 seconds after dialing the 13 digit number to reach Warner Brothers Studios and then a few minutes longer to be connected with the set where she is rehearsing for ‘Critics Choice’, with Bob Hope. She sounded near enough to be up in her former home at Celoron. And when we told her we had chosen her for our first direct distance dialing call, she let out an enthusiastic, “Oh, how nice!”’—Jamestown Post Journal, 1962 #lucilleball #jamestownny #longdistancecall #criticschoice #ontheset #vintagearticles #vintagenews #nationaltelephoneday #telephone #phonecall https://www.instagram.com/p/COGKtqknwvR/?igshid=1usqt09rjgogu