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Man making a call with his carphone, New York, 1959
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Hello? Oh good, good, how are you? Yeah I'm just talking to you FROM MY CAR! Yeah I'm just on the side of the road right now on my car phone that's connected to my car. Sorry, you can probably hear the traffic because I'm literally just standing on the sidewalk right now talking to you on the phone in my car. Oh goodness yes, a small fortune! But it's worth it for all the business I do.
"What's your business, Bob?"
"Car phone salesman."
Reminds me of when I sold all those magazine subscriptions so I could win an IR messaging device, enabling me to send short text messages to other people with the same device from all the way across the room. What a revolution.