| Look, I'll call you in the morning or this Times piece will explain |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:13 pm EST 12/16/17 |
| In reply to: What actually was a service? - Singapore/Fling 09:54 pm EST 12/15/17 |
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Linked Times article from September 2016 about The Belles Receptionists & Answering Service. Sondheim is still among their clients, or at least he was at the time the article appeared.
In case this wasn't clear from the responses below — and this relates back to the OP's post — the better (or more expensive) answering services would convey messages to callers. While most people probably primarily used answering services so that people could leave messages for them, which they would call in to receive, some services were willing to take messages from clients and pass them on to people who called for that client, including probably very specific messages for specific people.
So that (I presume) someone who wasn't a client could call the service and say something like, "This is Rhoda Morgenstern. Did Mary Richards leave a message for me?" |
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