North Electric Co (1969)
(midwest.social)
Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. Looks interesting, but it's probably not comfortable to use
We had the Taj Mahal
Oh, they are phones... Scrolling fast can be confusing.
"Yell louder dear I'm almost there!"
Modern phones for a modern woman.
It's a shame they don't come with vibrate mode.
l thought they were bad dragons for a moment
A Bell Dragon
Ma Dragon
Those holes at the tip seem really hard to clean. Or maybe those are waterjets? Jokes aside, yes toys probably werent that common back then but it still looks pretty phallic shaped and I cant believe the designers didnt do this on purpose.
I mean... it has a flared base.
I'm almost guaranteeing these are marketed toward women, so yes, that was probably a source of great amusement for the designers.
“The Dial in the Base ‘Comes to You!’”
Why?
A normal phone was split in two and the dial was on the main unit while the handset was cord attached and «with you», not on the desk
Right. But would you want to keep the dial with you? After you’ve started the call on a rotary phone, there’s no more dialing necessary
Perhaps you move the phone to the coffee table before you get comfy on the sofa, or you want to hang up and make a second call.
The world of tomorrow; truly, the future can only go up, from here.
Lemme tell you about the wonders of being reachable literally everywhere you go
And if you needed to dial while on the phone, then you would probably prefer it to be separate so you can see what you are dialing while still talking. I guess it means you wouldn't have to keep the base in an easily usable spot though.
At the time these were designed, dialing while on the phone, say to interface with a computer system, didn't exist.
I thought this was interesting, from Wikipedia:
As the Bell System did not permit the operation of third-party equipment on their network, the Ericofon could only be used by independent telephone companies in the United States. North Electric in Galion, Ohio, manufactured the Ericofon for the North American independent market.
Also known as the “cobra phone”
Read the grey as Persian orgy. Should go back to sleep
happens to the best of us
is this still available?
On ebay for ~$100
