Below is a fragment of a movie from 1958 that I found. This Chevrolet-sponsored film is dedicated to the “stylists of America” – the “men and women of taste and imagination” who have the “courage to dream”.
To my surprise the movie starts with a sunset view over the dome of General Motors Tech Center, Warren, Michigan immediately followed by a shot of an Ericofon.
Culture is an attitude. Just own the things that are not yours. Still going on.
An advertisement from 1980, as placed in the newspaper Het Vrije Volk, which was a social-democratic newspaper at that time in the Netherlands. The Ericofon marketed at the Femina, a fair just for women that once started in 1949. The telecommunication company PTT targeted women as group for the Ericofon.
It is another nice but subtle example of the sexualization of the Ericofon. Or maybe it is just how I experience the picture and the fact they were on a women’s fair. 🙂 Long time ago I had another post on this topic.
Some time back I came across a very nice Ericofon related item that was put up for sale. That was the first and also the last time I have seen this one. Unfortunately it went out for quite a large sum of money so I was not able to get it. Would have been nice though 🙁
It seems to be an original box with 9 color samples of the Ericofon. I guess it was manufactured in Sweden and I am not even sure if this set is complete. That’s all I know, but it is still an intriguing item. If you know more, please let me know.
Going back in time with a nice retro graphic that I found online. But we also have to look forward to a new year that will start in a few days. Wishing you all the best for 2025.
Actually I thought that I knew everything, or at least a lot, about the existence of all types of Ericofons. But what shows up in the past weeks? A model I have never heard of before. I know the 600, the 700 and all the deviations from these. But the 5000 I was not aware of. 🙂
It is a hands-free table phone that can be used for conferences. Produced by KonfTel for Ericsson in 1998. The table phone itself is numbered 5010 (or 5020), the whole unit 5000.
One thing is sure: this one will not end up in my collection.
The following guy did some fun things with Ericofons and music. It uses the limited bandwidth of the Ericofons speaker to create a retro effect. Although it hurt my eyes to see the Ericofons being ‘abused’, it is kind of nice.
On the last day of the year 2022 I take the opportunity to wish everyone a very healthy and happy 2023.
The past couple of years have been tough for different reasons. With the pandemic well under control in most parts of the world I hope that 2023 will bring us a bit more quite and piece. Hopefully international relations in eastern Europe will take a more positive turn this year as well.
Let’s dream for the best.
Sometimes you buy a phone that is not as advertised. This phone had some heat damage on 1 side and there was no way to recover it. The seller was so ‘nice’ to misled met with perfect pictures avoiding the spot that could not be overlooked by him. For the rest it really looked perfect.
As it is still summer holiday I decided to create my own ‘intersected Ericofon’. It is nice to see how everything fits into the chassis. It is not really going to be part of the collection, but it is interesting to see this construction so close myself. I believe there is an ‘official’ version of this, professionally made, but I am not 100% sure about it.
The town where I live is often indicated as 013, which is its landline area code before the mobile era. This year it is 213 years ago that this town got the city rights from Napoleon back in 1809.
Obviously a reason to celebrate so I took these pictures at a piece of light art in a dark town district.
People do all kinds of stuff with and to Ericofons. We already had the posts on cloned models, painted models and on lamp models. Now we have a new category: wrapped models.
Ulla-Stina Wikander is an artist located in Sweden. She is wrapping all kinds of weird stuff in cross stitch embroided landscape fabrics, including Ericofons.
If you like it, it must be nice but I prefer my Ericofons natural instead of Zentai. There is one exception of course.