Lucille Ball Quote About “I Love Lucy” Show

“In 1951-52, our show changed the Monday-night habits of America. Between nine and nine-thirty, taxis disappeared from the streets of New York. Marshall Fields department store in Chicago hung up a sign: ‘We love Lucy too, so from now on we’ll be open Thursday nights instead of Monday.’ Telephone calls across the nation dropped sharply during that half hour, as well as the water flush rate, as whole families sat glued to their seats.”

– Lucille Ball

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“Lucille Ball Quote About ‘I Love Lucy’ Show” Sources:

• Photograph taken by Harry Warnecke and Robert F. Cranston in 1944, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.94.40)

• Ball, Lucille. Love, Lucy. United States, Penguin Publishing Group, 1997.