Kelly: In 1988, vice presidential debate ‘put Omaha on the map'

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20121011/NEWS/710119908

By Michael Kelly

Omaha was the site of the best-remembered line from a vice presidential debate, but local coordinator Karla Ewert remembers that night for something else — her two “brick phones,” one in each ear.

Brick phones? Picture early, portable phones the size of bricks.

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Lloyd Bentsen, left, and Dan Quayle during the 1988 vice presidential debate in Omaha.


Technologically, that was eons ago — 1988. She recalls colleagues teasing her for talking on two phones at once, listening to a Republican in one ear and a Democrat in the other.

“It was hilarious,” she admits.

FULL story at link.

[rurallib]

1. up til then I was wondering what was across the river

from Council Bluffs.