Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bellcore!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: julian@bongo.uucp (Julian Macassey) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The "Bell" Logo Message-ID: <15380@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Dec 90 05:50:05 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Julian Macassey Organization: The Hole in the Wall Hollywood California U.S.A. Lines: 40 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 878, Message 11 of 11 In article <15200@accuvax.nwu.edu> dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 864, Message 3 of 14 >In article <15171@accuvax.nwu.edu>, mailrus!uflorida!rm1!bapat >(Subodh Bapat) writes: >> Talking about the Bell logo, is there any truth to the rumor that, >> once long ago, AT&T lost its right to use the Bell logo, as the >I have heard this story, but I regarded it as urban legend. In the >version I heard, somebody in Texas opened an answering service >bureau called 'Blue Bell Answering Service' using the familiar >Bell-in-a-Circle logo. The story goes on to say that he sold the >rights to his logo to AT&T, and with the proceeds, shut down his >service bureau and retired -- at age 25 or so. >Anybody else heard this one? All I can add to this is that the twenty-five year old Texan must have had lotsa cash and savvy to go to Bass & Yeager on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood and pay them several thousand - possibly a G or so to do him a logo. Bass & Yeager do corporate logos (Exxon, AT&T Death star etc) and movie titles. So the old Bell bought a logo from a Texas kid rather than a company that makes 'em to order? As far as I know, Bass & Yeager did the Bell in a circle logo. I am not sure who did the old black silouette "Bell System" logo. That is my favourite. Maybe we should have a telecom archive of "telco urban legends". We could include the psychic dog that knew when the phone was ringing. The lifetime credit-card number that Paul Newman was tired of having. And the one the telcos perpetuated, how you can "Damage the network with foreign equipment". Julian Macassey, n6are julian@bongo.info.com ucla-an!denwa!bongo!julian N6ARE@N6YN (Packet Radio) n6are.ampr.org [44.16.0.81] voice (213) 653-4495