Andy Griffith AT&T Commercial 1984
Remember when you had to lease a phone from the phone company (I actually don’t)? This store looks an aweful lot like today’s cell phone stores.
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They are so old!!! lol…
Why is there a cord on the handset? Is that how they got power to the phone?
They used Andy in another commercial during the corporate breakup, urging everyone to just relax.
@TheSanityInspector Why didn’t other phone companies just offer better phones? Isn’t that how free market capitalism works?
@arch571332 Hee-hee…unless you’re having me on, I should let you know that there *were* no other phone companies back then. Ma Bell was considered a natural monopoly, before the breakup.
@TheSanityInspector I’ve been researching this online today. Why do some people say it was an unnatural monopoly?
@ideahunter Those phones didn’t need power, all they needed was the phone-line. They only needed to power the answering machines.