#number please

[thirtytwoelvismovies]

I’ve had this song in my head for the last day or so.

[littlehorrorshop]

Harold Lloyd in Number Please? (1920)

[sohannabarberaesque]

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.

[fortheloveofbuster]

"The Cook and Other Treasures" starring Buster and Roscoe Arbuckle. This short was considered lost until 1998; additional footage was discovered and added in 2002. This edition combines the sources to approximate the original 1918 U.S. release. The dvd also features two additional silent shorts: Arbuckle's "Reckless Romeo" and Harold Lloyd's "Number, Please?".

http://www.busterstuff.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=34&products_id=694

[littlehorrorshop]

Harold Lloyd in Number Please? (1920)

[magxit]

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[catskewl]

I just know in my next life I’m going to come back as a surly, wise-cracking telephone operator. “Number Please”, 1920.

[lindaseccaspina]

Telephone Tales from 569 South Street

Telephone Tales from 569 South Street

November 1944- with Julienne Audette, Madeleine Phaneuf, Fay Richardson, Simone Grueenwood,E.L. Green, Madeleine Dover, Theresa Cody and Marthe Dandenault.Sue Bowles Hunter—191 Main Street Cowansville 1926 Photo-Ville de Cowansville with thanks to (Susan Bowles Hunter)

  The phrase “Number please”will never be heard again from a telephone switchboard operator when making a phone call. At least…

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