Phone Booth Advertisement Cards

Phone Booth Advertisement Cards

Advertisements were often placed in telephone booths by the local telephone company. Below are images from the Bell System practices for two types of advertisement card frames and how they were mounted in a phone booth next to, or above, the payphone.

Several examples of these cards are reproduced below.

KS-19928 List 1 Card Frame

KS-19928 List 2 Card Frame

Phone Booth Advertisement Cards

Below are some examples advertisement cards from our collection. Feel free to submit additional examples.

Low Long Distance Rates

$1.00 or less*

Weekends after 7 p.m. All day Saturday All day Sunday

*Applies to 3-miniute, station-to-station, interstate calls anywhere in the U.S. except Hawaii and Alaska

Southwestern Bell

Long Distance

When someone you know is celebrating something, Long Distance is the next best thing to being there.

Southwestern Bell

Help is as close as the phone

Southwestern Bell

Thoughts for the holidays

Thoughts for the holidays:

Long distance it's the next best thing to being there.

Call early and avoid the rush.

NOV-DEC 1972

A loved one's voice can make a day complete

Call the folks back home

Long Distances. What else is so nice for the price.

NOV. - DEC. 1978 Booth Poster

Give them a good home.

And you'll get a home full of convenience. Extension Phones. In many styles. In many colors. Just call your Telephone Company Business Office.

The C&P Telephone Company of Maryland

Part of the Nationwide Bell System

Reservations make your trip run smoothly

Call ahead now

TV Update | Sports Phone

New Jersey Bell

Look for the convenience coinless public telephone.

Charge-a-Call

For telephone credit card and collect billing

Southwestern Bell

The unhandyman's toolbox
Yellow Pages

"Her fever's down and she's going to be alright."
Some thoughts are better said than read.

I'm your branch office. Use me.
And use your telephone credit card. It's the easiest way to use me.
Southwestern Bell