Collecting Telephone Books [1]: \"It...

Collecting Telephone Books: "It all began in 1953 in Cortland, New York. In those days, almost every U.S. telephone book had plain gray covers like shirt stiffeners, with a title and a small line drawing vignette. That year, when our new telephone book arrived, it occurred to me that the drawing changed every year, but I couldn't remember any of the drawings from previous years. I set aside the outdated Cortland phone book, and kept saving them for a couple of years, until they went out in the trash."