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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 26, 2014 19:28:57 GMT -5
I miss big phone receivers that were so easy to cradle on your shoulder. I think it's been said before that the note pad looks like a roll of toilet paper.
Claudia's ethnicity is a bit questionable on this one, but I always thought she was pretty here.
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starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
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Post by starrynight on Jul 26, 2014 20:50:05 GMT -5
^ This is how I pictured Claudia for the longest time, even though she definitely doesn't look Japanese.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jul 26, 2014 20:54:17 GMT -5
I was confused for a long time by the cover because of the fact that she doesn't look Japanese.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Jul 27, 2014 3:01:43 GMT -5
This is one of my favorite covers because Claudia looks really pretty here.
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Post by candykane on Jul 27, 2014 17:59:36 GMT -5
Claudia is very cute on this cover. I like that the phone has a rotary dial.
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Post by Honeybee on Jul 28, 2014 13:05:42 GMT -5
I also like the rotary phone. This is one of my favorite BSC covers. The house must be in the 50's. Since, theirs rotary phone on the wall.
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Post by greer on Jul 28, 2014 13:37:34 GMT -5
I also like the rotary phone. This is one of my favorite BSC covers. The house must be in the 50's. Since, theirs rotary phone on the wall. They were still around in the 80s.
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celaeno
Sitting For The Papadakis's
I have to share a room with Vanessa
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Post by celaeno on Jul 28, 2014 14:16:37 GMT -5
The walls on the covers of #1, 2, and 4 are so very bare.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jul 28, 2014 14:49:04 GMT -5
Dale Dyer did the early covers. Does anyone prefer his work over Hodges?
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Post by greer on Jul 28, 2014 14:55:56 GMT -5
I like Hodges better because he's the classic.
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Post by Honeybee on Jul 28, 2014 15:29:45 GMT -5
I also like the rotary phone. This is one of my favorite BSC covers. The house must be in the 50's. Since, theirs rotary phone on the wall. They were still around in the 80s. Yes, I know that. But, they could buy a used house, so the year could be in the 50's, 60's, or 70's. Very rare, for someone buying a new house. Unless your rich.
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Post by greer on Jul 28, 2014 15:43:26 GMT -5
They were still around in the 80s. Yes, I know that. But, they could buy a used house, so the year could be in the 50's, 60's, or 70's. Very rare, for someone buying a new house. Unless your rich. Would it come with the house, though? They were pretty expensive.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 28, 2014 18:25:48 GMT -5
Rotary phones were expensive? I thought they were just the norm for a certain time. We had one for long after they became obsolete for the rest of the world. (My dad refused to get an answering machine until like 1995.) I guess it could have come with the house (I was too young to remember moving in), but that seems like an odd, personal item to leave. (And germy to move in and use the people's old phone!)
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Post by greer on Jul 28, 2014 18:35:43 GMT -5
I think they were expensive in the 50s/60s and you rented them from the phone company. My mom was complaining about phones in this vein and how they were better back in the day last time I was at her house. I don't think rotary phones were more expensive, but phones in general were. I don't remember if this would have been true for the 80s, though.
We never got an answering machine and my mom still doesn't have a cell phone.
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 28, 2014 19:42:09 GMT -5
^My only memory is that in the 80's and also 90's we went through a lot of the white trim-line touch pad phones and that those didn't seem to last too long. I have not so positive memories of rotary phones but do think they may have lasted longer. Greer, I think it's great (if you're mom does that she doesn't have a cell phone. I still have a basic pre-paid pay as you go. I understand and appreciate how handy cell phones can be. It just makes me sad to see people, particularly parents so wrapped up on their phones that they are ignoring their child. All that said, I very much wish that cell phones had been around during my childhood (safety reasons). I don't even think those pre-paid phone cards came out until much later like Mary Anne buys for Angela or I sometimes get at the 99 cent only store because they literally give you 99 minutes for 99 cents
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