And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My sister and I cleared out our aunt's house when she went into assisted living and we found a couple of them. My sister still had a landline for her FAX machine. I plugged in the phone and called my cell. It worked!
Not only do I remember them, I remember a neighbor coming over to borrow my phone and discovering them sitting staring at it helplessly 10 minutes later.
Slamming the handset on these certainly gave more meaning of your mood to the person on the other end of the line than nowadays viciously pressing the off button.
Current house is fully wired for drops in: kitchen, LR, MASTER BATH!!, and a few downstairs. Alas, the local "phone" company no longer runs copper to the house. Only fiber. Phone service is VOIP. *sigh* I miss copper.
Southern NJ got digital phones in '72-'73. Weird. 100 miles away near Philly they still had dial phones. There was a code to dial that turned all the house phones into an intercom.
Nothing feels better than slamming down the receiver on an old telephone
i was at a friends house a while back and he still had an old rotary phone and when that thing rang right nect to me I jumped out of my skin, that thing was loud. and I miss hearing the little "ting" during thunderstorms when lightning hit the phone line.
I still have a couple from when we bought my in-law's house. I also got a '69 Cutlass in the deal.
ReplyDeleteMy sister and I cleared out our aunt's house when she went into assisted living and we found a couple of them. My sister still had a landline for her FAX machine. I plugged in the phone and called my cell. It worked!
DeletePea green here......
ReplyDeleteNot avocado?
DeleteI've got one. No light though.
ReplyDeleteThey were a much more effective projectile than a little iPhone or droid is, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI currently have a beige wall phone with a rotary dial on my land line. Worked fine when I got it in 1963 and it still works fine.
ReplyDeleteApparently young people wonder how they work.
ReplyDeleteNot only do I remember them, I remember a neighbor coming over to borrow my phone and discovering them sitting staring at it helplessly 10 minutes later.
ReplyDeleteThis was in the '80s, btw....
Slamming the handset on these certainly gave more meaning of your mood to the person on the other end of the line than nowadays viciously pressing the off button.
ReplyDeletePOP CORN was the number to call time (atomic clock)
ReplyDelete'At the tone, the time will be xx and xx seconds.'.
I knew it ... You are Batman
ReplyDeleteI used to pick mine up and the operator got on the line asking who would I like to speak with.
ReplyDeleteCurrent house is fully wired for drops in: kitchen, LR, MASTER BATH!!, and a few downstairs. Alas, the local "phone" company no longer runs copper to the house. Only fiber. Phone service is VOIP. *sigh* I miss copper.
ReplyDeleteAnd millennials probably think the letters were for sending messages
ReplyDeleteYour basic "500" set in black, color code '03'.
ReplyDeleteStarted out putting those in in '71. I think there's still a set of gaffs in the garage.
these things were built tuffer than an iron jack-ass.
ReplyDeleteSouthern NJ got digital phones in '72-'73. Weird. 100 miles away near Philly they still had dial phones. There was a code to dial that turned all the house phones into an intercom.
ReplyDeleteNothing feels better than slamming down the receiver on an old telephone
ReplyDeletei was at a friends house a while back and he still had an old rotary phone and when that thing rang right nect to me I jumped out of my skin, that thing was loud. and I miss hearing the little "ting" during thunderstorms when lightning hit the phone line.