1960`s Nude Silhouette Litho Print...Artist ID Help...

I blieve this is 1960`s because of the "Frame Shoppe" label (No Zip or Area code)...Any help on the artist name is appreciated....Thanks.

 

W. Foraker ?

 

Foraker?
Doraker?
Joraker?
Iaroker?

 

Toraker, Toroker, Toraku?

 

Thanks to all,for trying.

 

Can't help on the sig., but you're correct about zip codes starting in 1960. However, phone area codes started shortly after WWII. 1947.

BTW, that's one of the rare pieces of art I would add to my collection.

 

OldGuy, I'm not sure if you're talking about area codes or "exchanges" (like the "ALgonquin 4" on the label shown here.)

Lots of places were still using the old-style exchanges well into the 1960's. Of course, AL4 meant 254 when you were dialing, but it sounds sort of cool to say Algonguin 4 instead.

I remember in the early 1960's, we were PIoneer 6-9231 (and that's STILL how I remember my childhood phone number!)

 

SBSVC. I actually thought area codes were later, too. Had to look it up. I think it had a lot to do where you were and how populated. One of my friends, in 1950, still had a box in the kitchen closet with a crank. You got a live operator (until midnight, if she was still awake) and she had to manually click you through. Population about 2,500.

I was in an adjoining city of about 80 or 90,000. The phone I remember in the 30s to mid 40s was a candlestick with a rotary dial. Then switched to the "modern" one piece "speak and listen." Do remember some long distance with such as your ID and #.

According to Bing -

When did area codes first come into use?
The area code system was developed by AT&T and Bell Laboratories in the 1940's, and went into effect in 1947. It was called the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) and included the United States and Canada .

How were the original area codes distributed?
In 1947, states and provinces that had a single area code we assigned three digit codes with 0 as the middle number, such as 203 for Connecticut and 305 for Florida . There were 86 area codes at that time.

States and provinces that had more than one area code distributed to them were given three digit codes with 1 as the middle number, such as 916 and 213 for various sections of California , and 212 and 518 for various sections of New York .

The first and third digits were allotted according to population density in the city or region the area code was going to, with the most populated areas getting the lowest numbers. The New York City area, for example, was assigned 212, while the surrounding suburbs were assigned 914.

The rationale for this “low number/high population” scheme was based on the fact that phones had rotary dials in those days. Lower numbers resulted in shorter “dial pulls” so it was reasoned that the regions with the most people in them should require the least “work” to call.

I'm NOT one who says, "If it's in print it's factual."

Let me know what you think of the above copy and paste.

 

Hi,
Out in Western Pa we had our first telephone exchange number.
It was OL 4. We were on a four party line. Our number was 2 short rings, my friend Jimmy was 2 long rings, Mrs. Hindman was one long and one short. I can not remember who was one short and one long. We had those numbers up until 1960. The phone NEVER rang after 6PM or before 6AM. If it rang it was always bad news. My friend Bob would call me and after I picked up Jimmy would pick up and we would have three way calling LONG before
anyone else.
greg

 

Greg, I do remember picking up the phone to make a call and hear someone else's conversation. But I didn't know who they were - we were two parties on one line. That was 1940s.

What I do think a bit odd is the dates on the previous comments.

First, when I mentioned the crank phone in existence in the 1950s I said "friend." It was early 1950s and was actually my girlfriend baby sitting her little cousins. She had called me (long distance) and when we realized it was being charged to her aunt I told her to hang up and I would call her back. When I dialed the number the local operator in that town - or whatever she was called - refused to connect me because it was after midnight. I'm sure I did not use any nasty words, but eventually convinced her to put the call through.

The next morning the first thing she did was to call my future aunt-in-law and give her the full report on what went on. She probably had been listening to everything we said from the first minute.

NOW, here's where I'm a bit lost. In 1960, western PA and, it sounds like a lot of other places, had party lines.

In 1961 I was married to that beautiful lady who had babysat her cousins. We also had our first owned home built in that very town where her aunt lived. Population had grown to 3,600. When the house was 99% finished we moved in on Labor Day weekend 1961. Kinda in a rush because we had our son and daughter starting school the day after labor day. We also had a 3 year old son who would soon be joined by a third son born 6 days before Christmas, 1961.

We had installed in our new home the regular - modern - phones which allowed us to call anywhere by just dialing. Often with a 1 in front though. Yeah - 1961.

 

My family had a party line phone when we moved to Suffolk County, NY in mid-1961. An "out in the boonies" location, of course. But the area was undergoing major growth not long after that, so I'm pretty sure we had regular "dial phones" within a couple years. Certainly by the time I left for college in '65.

 

Hi Oldguy,
In 1961 our town population was 92. 63 of which were related to me by blood or marriage. I had the choice of the town whore or my cousin to marry, since they were the same person I had to go away to find someone else.
greg