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Originally posted by Eric C
I think I read somewhere that these clear plastic sets were designed to go into prison cells. They had to be clear in order that prison officials could make sure that there was no contraban hidden in them.
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Yeppers, that's what the auction copy reads. I heard mention of some Zenith sets in the 80's that were available in clear....I wonder if they had anything to do with prison applications.
Way back before the Bell system was broken up you could order your phone (rental only, remember?) in various custom colors including clear. Most no one probably knows this, but being the weird kid that I was I had read the front of the phone book (white pages) and they mentioned this. You could send them a swatch of whatever color you wanted and they'd match it, for a fee of course. But the thing that blew my fragile mind is that you could choose clear as well.
Anthony