Calvert Creative

No way, baby. Texting has been around for ages, and this photo, which appeared in the August 1935 issue of Modern Mechanix proves it. For a small fee Londoners could write a brief message (I don’t know if they had Twitter’s 140 character limit) that would be saved for viewing by others for two hours. So when you showed up at the barber shop at 5:30 pm and your buddy wasn’t there as expected, you’d look around for a nearby Notificator (what a great name!) and see if there was a reason why he was delayed. That’s my guess, anyway. Wouldn’t you love to see what some of those messages really were? Me too.

Thanks to CharlieGower on Flickr for posting the photo, which he learned of from Adam Crowe, who apparently discovered it on Info Marketing Blog. Whew!