General Telephone & Electronics (GT&E) telephones

These advertising pages are by General Telephone & Electronics (GT&E).

1st ad (1962) has a photo of a table model, rotary dial telephone. It is a white Starlite model. The phone is sitting on a suitcase on a wood dock. Lots of travel stickers on the case. Ad text starts “Growing Abroad” and goes on about the worldwide expanding telephone service.

2nd ad (1962) has a photo of a table model, rotary dial telephone. It is a green Starlite model. The phone is sitting out on the lawn with garden hose, wheelbarrow and tools. Ad text starts “Growing at the grass roots” and goes on about the rural expanding telephone service.

3rd ad (1962) has a photo of a table model, rotary dial telephone. It is a blue Starlite model. The phone is sitting on a signpost on a Florida beach. Ad text starts “Everything points to a glowing future” and goes on about the expanding Florida telephone service.

4rd ad (1962) has a photo of a table model, rotary dial telephone. It is a green Starlite model. The phone is in a woven mail basket on a residential door. Ad text starts “Making new neighbors feel at home” and goes on about the expanding telephone service.

5th ad (1962) has a photo of a table model, rotary dial telephone. It is light blue. The phone is sitting on the ground with a Vandenberg AFB helmet (dark blue) and a toy Atlas rocket. They are behind a chain link fence. Ad text starts “Teamed for defense” and goes on about GTE building the Air Force’s communications at their first ICBM base.

6th ad (1962) has a photo of a table model, push-button telephone. It is light pink and labeled for a company eBay won't let me mention. The phone is on a wood tray, with coffee, boiled egg and Wall Street Journal. Ad text starts "New way to serve up business data" and goes on about WU broadband microwave network.

7th ad (1963) has a photo of a table model, rotary dial telephone. It is a blue Starlite model. The phone is strapped to a television camera and books and sitting on an old-fashioned school desk. Ad text starts “using TV to teach...by telephone” and goes on about phone-line transmitted educational classes.

8th ad (1963) has a photo of a speaker model, rotary dial telephone. Next to it is a small copy of the of the Venus de Milo statue. Ad text starts “The phone you can use hands free” and goes on about the speaker phone.

These ads are full page, each approx. 7” x 10”, carefully removed from 1962 or 1963 magazines.

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