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.
Ours looked exactly like this. On the kitchen wall. Avocado green desk model on the divider between the living room and dining room. Older desk unit repainted orange in the bedroom. 1972
My dad had a green one on the kitchen wall until the day he died 8 years ago and it still worked. I was born in 1970 and remember it being there as a kid
I saw a cheesy made for television movie where a guy was murdered when he answered a phone. it was a wall phone with a very short cord. the killer shot through the wall. he knew where the guy had to be standing. the first clue was the shooter had to have been in the kitchen to know all that.
you would have to explain every sentence in this to a millennial
We had one that was khaki colored and my older sister tried to talk my dad into buying a 20-foot cable (from the phone to the headset) and he wouldn't, so when she got a job, she bought one after getting her first paycheck!
I also remember in around 2004 or 2005, my mother-in-law was trying to reduce her bills, and she had a desk model (although it had buttons, not the rotary) and I noticed she was paying Ma Bell $2.75 a month to rent that phone so I called them about just buying it and they wanted some huge amount - I don't remember the exact amount but something like $125 - for us to buy it so we returned it and bought a cheapo phone from Best Buy. She'd had that phone for some 25-30 years and if she paid even an average of $1.50 a month to rent it, she had probably paid some $500 in rental fees. Crazy.
Ours looked exactly like this. On the kitchen wall. Avocado green desk model on the divider between the living room and dining room. Older desk unit repainted orange in the bedroom. 1972
ReplyDeleteAnd the wall one was still there in 1990 when we finally moved
DeleteI have a pink one.
ReplyDeleteMy dad had a green one on the kitchen wall until the day he died 8 years ago and it still worked. I was born in 1970 and remember it being there as a kid
ReplyDeleteWe had a beige colored wall phone in the kitchen for years.
ReplyDeleteI saw a cheesy made for television movie where a guy was murdered when he answered a phone. it was a wall phone with a very short cord. the killer shot through the wall. he knew where the guy had to be standing. the first clue was the shooter had to have been in the kitchen to know all that.
ReplyDeleteyou would have to explain every sentence in this to a millennial
and the cord was always tangled
ReplyDeleteYou could beat someone to death with the handset and still take a call after you wiped it off.
ReplyDeleteGetting a long cord from the phone company guy was the key.
Heh, long cord to go down the hall and into the bedroom...
ReplyDeleteI have one in my garage, same color. The round center is replaced with the picture of a Tach.
ReplyDeleteWe had one that was khaki colored and my older sister tried to talk my dad into buying a 20-foot cable (from the phone to the headset) and he wouldn't, so when she got a job, she bought one after getting her first paycheck!
ReplyDeleteI also remember in around 2004 or 2005, my mother-in-law was trying to reduce her bills, and she had a desk model (although it had buttons, not the rotary) and I noticed she was paying Ma Bell $2.75 a month to rent that phone so I called them about just buying it and they wanted some huge amount - I don't remember the exact amount but something like $125 - for us to buy it so we returned it and bought a cheapo phone from Best Buy. She'd had that phone for some 25-30 years and if she paid even an average of $1.50 a month to rent it, she had probably paid some $500 in rental fees. Crazy.
Same yellow one in Kitchen and the table top version in the downstairs. You got caught stretching the cord and it was your ass
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