Word: phones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Willem Alberts owns the nightclub Pompidou near The Hague, and just before the Common Market summit conference in that city, he received a phone call from the French embassy. Out of respect for President Georges Pompidou, he was asked to rename his establishment. "Well, I could change the spelling from Pompidou to Pompidoe," said he. "It's the same pronunciation in Dutch. But you will have to pay the cost of changing my neon sign." Not a word since from the embassy, which apparently does not feel that one letter is worth the price ($20). Anyway, Pompidou loves nightclubs...
...Manager Gormley leaves his office to make last-minute checks with some of 800 employees. Eying crowds jammed behind restraining ropes at 13 entrances, he makes certain that nearby telephones are removed from their cradles. On more than one occasion, tense shoppers have stampeded when they mistook a phone ring for the gong announcing basement's opening...
Symphony Cinema H-Joanne Woodward in Paul Newman's Rachel, Rachel; and Alan Arkin in, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Same place, but the phone...
Cheri Theatre 2-Liza Minnclli in The Sterde Cuckoo. As you may have guessed, the place and phone are the same...
...change the basic form of the block either. "It was a human image, after all. My idea was to retain the identity but to metamorphose it into a new image." So he added a telephone and rigged it to a recording of two girls chatting on the phone. His Girl Talk greets the visitor with snippets like "All I can remember is sitting in the Excelsior...