1946 Advertisement on French Phonebooks
1946 is launched advertising on French phone directories.
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Official Annuaire de Telephone in 1953 seul l´Office d´Annonces ... only the Office d´Annonces ODA is allowed to sell advertisement. |
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1959 / 1969 President de Gaulle and the Phone
According to the Legend the General de Gaulle (president from 1944-1946 and again 1959 - 1969) considered phonelines in private households as something not necessary. 1955 France has only 2 million phonelines. A new phone customer needs to wait 3 years to get connected. Les Demoiselles du Téléphone (Operators) could be reached by dialing 11 - they were manually connecting phonecalls. Impossible to dial a number directly. 1966 Scetch "22 à Asnieres" 1966 the comedian Fernand Raynaud makes a famous scetch ridiculising the French Phonesystem. As it is very difficult to place Phonecalls within France Raynaud located in Paris calls a New York Operator to be connected with a phonenumber (the number 22) in Asnières, a small town just outside Paris. |
