Sepia Saturday

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This week sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share photos based on the cutie above who's on the phone.


Rochester Photo Press, C. C. (ca. 1909) Young Woman Talking Into a Telephone. , ca. 1909. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2013647226/.


I found some quotations worth sharing too:

We shall one day navigate the air as the sea—rain will be made to pour on the desert, and it will be cultivated and blossom as the rose—bread shall yet be made of stones in the street—the man of a hundred years shall yet be in his prime—men will yet take a little instrument from their waistcoat pocket and communicate with a friend a hundred miles away without wires, as if they spoke face to face. ~James Gillingham (1838–1924), The Seat of the Soul Discovered or the World's Great Problem Solved, with Objections to the Same Answered, second edition, 1870.

O misery, misery, mumble and moan!
Someone invented the telephone,
And interrupted a nation's slumbers,
Ringing wrong but similar numbers...
~Ogden Nash (1902–1971), "Look What You Did, Christopher!"

Imagine what Nash would thing of the robo calls we get.

TELEPHONE, n.  An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ~Ambrose Bierce


(ca. 1906) Santa Claus with children and toys: Santa in his workshop talking on telephone and surrounded by toys. , ca. 1906. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002699155/.

(ca. 1906) Santa Claus with children and toys: Santa in his workshop talking on telephone and surrounded by toys. , ca. 1906. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002699155/.



If you get annoyed by robocalls, you might enjoy some of the bloggers who turn the tables on the scammers who tried to take advantage of people.


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Comments

  1. Mike BrubakerMay 29, 2022 at 8:17 AM

    Perfect images for our theme. The quotes were spot on, especially Ambrose Bierce's definition. The calls I receive on my landline phone are almost exclusively robocalls or scams. Some are so frequent that I recognize the voice on the first syllable. The foreign call centers fortunately give a "boop" tone before connecting to the agent, so I can hangup as soon as I hear it.

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  2. Monica T.May 30, 2022 at 4:17 AM

    Great matches to the theme. Love the quotes, too!

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  3. La NightingailMay 30, 2022 at 12:48 PM

    The pictures and quotes are all great, and the video was a lot of fun! I've sometimes had a little fun with scammers, then lower the boom. What a bunch of crappy low-lifes they are.

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  4. Barbara RogersJune 1, 2022 at 6:33 AM

    How great to see more phones from the past...but especially to read those quotes!

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