The Tellophone Book
To honor Crowley Webb's 40th anniversary, we set up a phone booth and loaded 40 questions about connection. Click around to discover some of what we heard.
Before the days of computers in our pockets, this is how we found each other – names, addresses, numbers. You'd open the Yellow Pages and start flipping.
This was completely commonplace back in 1986 when two men started an ad agency in Buffalo with one client and zero offices. Joe Crowley and John Webb took agency calls from a phonebooth on Chippewa Street in downtown Buffalo.
To honor our 40th anniversary, we set up a phone booth and loaded forty questions – about phones, about memories, about special calls. Then we listened. Click around to discover some of what we heard.
Questions we asked
- What would you say to the president?
- What was your prank phone call?
- Who do you call after a tough day?
- Rotary phone or smartphone?
- What was 1986 like?
- What will the phone be like in 40 years?
- What's worse than being on hold?
- Do you remember any phone numbers?
- What would you say to your dad?
- Craziest phone call ever?
From the directory
- Crowley Webb & Associates
- Crowley Webb Studios
- The Sweeney Building
- Hair Dimensions
- AAA
- M&T Bank
- Fera's Famous Submarine Shop
- J Pappy's Golf Shop & Driving Range
- United Way of Buffalo & Erie County
- Sullivan Tire
- Buffalo Prep
- Local 86
- Builders Insurance
- Sam Wyche Sports World
- Checker Cab Co.
- Gino & Joe's
- UNC Dairy
- Buck Chiropractic Day Clinics
- Evergreen Health Pharmacy
- Praxis Communications
- Keith's Hair Replacement Center
- ESAB Welding and Cutting Products
- Quality Pro Painters
- Swannie House
- Hopper's Rush Inn
- War Memorial Stadium
- Nietzsche's
- Founding Fathers Pub
- Adam, Meldrum & Anderson
- Albright-Knox Gallery
- Shea's Performing Arts Center
- Chef's Restaurant