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.
Somebody got us a 20 footer, that was so boss, yeah it got tangled, had to unwind it frequently, we considered it such a luxury, marveled at it, back in that day.
Wow that’s the exact same phone I grew up with, in the same pre-“hot line” red that was soon discontinued. I think the Batphone was the same color. After more than 4 decades of renting it from AT&T the dialer started to get sluggish. A service tech took it off the wall and installed a standard wall socket. He could have repaired the thing but they had stopped carrying the lubricant more than a decade before, so it went into the trash. The phone company didn’t want it back.
The 1960s version of BRB
ReplyDeleteThat's how to "put it on hold" until the party called for gets to the phone. Yep, older than dirt... lol
ReplyDeleteThat's the position of the kitchen phone when I answered it but it was for Mom.
ReplyDeleteswivel volume switch on the bottom
ReplyDeletefor the ringer
DeleteNot a 'knob', is a slider tab for the ringer.
DeleteLeft for quiet, right for loud. That ringer is set to max
DeleteWith the 6+ ft long curly-cord for the handset that always got kinked.
ReplyDeletepick up with right hand, transfer to left...
DeleteSomebody got us a 20 footer, that was so boss, yeah it got tangled, had to unwind it frequently, we considered it such a luxury, marveled at it, back in that day.
DeleteWestern Electric model 554 wall instrument. It and the 500 desk-top set will still be working when the last cucaracha nesting inside goes toes up.
ReplyDeleteUnless I got it wrong, it's the phone number for Maydean Alexander in Lowell Michigan....
ReplyDeletemay they be sentenced to callbacks with many-zeroed numbers.
ReplyDeleteProbably didn’t want to be bothered by a phone call!
ReplyDeleteWow that’s the exact same phone I grew up with, in the same pre-“hot line” red that was soon discontinued. I think the Batphone was the same color. After more than 4 decades of renting it from AT&T the dialer started to get sluggish. A service tech took it off the wall and installed a standard wall socket. He could have repaired the thing but they had stopped carrying the lubricant more than a decade before, so it went into the trash. The phone company didn’t want it back.
ReplyDeleteThat's how I handled spam callers who just wouldn't shut up back-in-the-day. "Why, yes, please tell me more!"
ReplyDeleteThought back then those where the best style, even better with a long handset cord.
ReplyDeleteYou are on hold when the reciever is put like that..."Hey, you got a phone call!" is what I yelled at my sister
ReplyDeleteThat's how you turned your phone off, too.
ReplyDeleteIncommunicado at its finest.