Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.

Color Telephones

Posted Monday, December 26, 2011, at 12:00 AM

This photo by Frony was likely taken for Southwestern Bell, possibly in the late 1950s.

Feb. 26, 1958 Southeast Missourian advertisement

This ad showed a man in a closet saying, "Go ahead, I'm alone now..."

Don't close yourself up in a closet when you need to be alone with the phone. You can have privacy and enjoy it, too, with handy extension telephones in bedrooms, kitchen, den -- wherever you want them. Nine beautiful colors or standard black. For color, there's a one-time-only charge. Call the telephone business office.

End "One-Phone" problems with handy extension telephones. Only 90 cents a month, plus tax and installation.

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Boy have times changed... and yes.. this was waaay before I ever came around.

-- Posted by bluejay2003 on Wed, Dec 28, 2011, at 1:03 AM

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