This week’s featured digitized image collection is the Teenage Telephone Essay, photographed by Grey Villet for Life magazine, and stored in Google’s Life photo archive. “The Teenage Telephone Tie-up” was the cover story of the April 2, 1956 issue.
Image source; back issue available for sale on eBay.
I couldn’t find the text of the story, but the very high quaintness factor of these images is causing me to consider buying that copy on eBay. The story arc seems to be “Young Americans engage in courtship using a device called the telephone. With this tool, they agree to attend a party, get ready for the party, and meet at the party. The whole process vaguely annoys their apron-wearing, hands-on-hipsing parents.”
Illustrated thusly with just a few of the dozens and dozens of photos:
And those party dresses and finger waves are divine.
I stumbled upon these while looking for images to add to my collection of photos of men on the phone.
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