textfiles,
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A pair of really sweet uploads in the last bit of time: Two Pacific Bell specialized home phone catalogs, encouraging you to break out of the standard telephones (that they offered) into a plastic insane world of pure 1980s kitsch.

https://archive.org/details/pnb-the-famous-phones-in-your-life
https://archive.org/details/pnb-famous-phones-for-pacific-northwest-interiors

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textfiles,
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This one gets its own toot.

ghostdancer,
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@textfiles Didn't know they were making a reboot of Barry Lyndon .

luis_in_brief,
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@textfiles I assume this picture was also an exhibit in one of their antitrust trials.

mjgardner,

@textfiles Obvious application of this image

frustrated_phagocytosis,

@textfiles
Oh wow i bought one of the type on page 13 at a garage sale for $5 in 1997ish

VirginiaSOpossum,
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@textfiles Is this from when you still had to rent them from the phone company?

textfiles,
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@VirginiaSOpossum That would be correct! That's why the prices are monthly rental.

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