“Long Distance. What else is so nice for the price?” Let’s dial up our Daily 70s Spot and see if anyone’s home. Here we have a Southwestern Bell Long Distance commercial touting the benefits of calling over driving. Spot aired … Continue reading
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“Long distance is the next best thing to being there.” Time to get on the court and dribble out our Daily 70s Spot. Today we find basketball great, Bill Russell (Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics) for long distance telephoning. The commercial … Continue reading
“Let the Yellow Pages do your talking.” Our Daily 70s Spot is a Yellow Pages Southwestern Bell commercial featuring an animated mascot with an “Irish” accent. I remember this mascot fellow but an internet search failed to turn up his … Continue reading
“What you are about to see is the world’s most revolutionary telephone switching invention…” Here’s a great spot for ancient technology fans. A late 1970s-era commercial for the new computerized Bell System ‘Super Switcher’ telephone service. It cost Bell over … Continue reading