Thursday, October 31, 2024

Remember these? I used a red one for years.

 


19 comments:

  1. I still have a couple from when we bought my in-law's house. I also got a '69 Cutlass in the deal.

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    1. 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!

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  2. Pea green here......

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  3. I've got one. No light though.

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  4. They were a much more effective projectile than a little iPhone or droid is, that's for sure.

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  5. I 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.

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  6. Apparently young people wonder how they work.

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  7. 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.

    This was in the '80s, btw....

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  8. 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.

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  9. POP CORN was the number to call time (atomic clock)

    'At the tone, the time will be xx and xx seconds.'.

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  10. I knew it ... You are Batman

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  11. I used to pick mine up and the operator got on the line asking who would I like to speak with.

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  12. 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.

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  13. And millennials probably think the letters were for sending messages

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  14. Your basic "500" set in black, color code '03'.
    Started out putting those in in '71. I think there's still a set of gaffs in the garage.

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  15. these things were built tuffer than an iron jack-ass.

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  16. 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.

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  17. 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.

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