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.
Monday, February 16, 2026
If you still have a landline, looks like an old Western Electric model.
after I retired, I dumped the cell phone and just use the land line. I have found that life is so much quieter now without the damn cell. wife still keeps her cell though for whatever reason.
Have about ½ dozen of the real thing laying around here. Probably still work if I had a landline.
ReplyDeleteI bought a 1929 Bell wall mount reconditioned for modern phone lines for our kitchen, big hit with the guests.
ReplyDeleteWe have such sporadic and unreliable internet where we live in remote El Paso (Colorado) County that we have a landline.
ReplyDeleteThe replacement of the rotary dial with pushbuttons was a MUCH NEEDED UPGRADE.
ReplyDeleteYou have to pay extra for rotary service here.
ReplyDeleteafter I retired, I dumped the cell phone and just use the land line. I have found that life is so much quieter now without the damn cell. wife still keeps her cell though
ReplyDeletefor whatever reason.
But is it as heavy and solid as the original? The original desk phone could be used as a weapon or a boat anchor. up
ReplyDeleteI worked my way thru college working for Pacific Telephone in the Black Slums of LA for 4 yrs installing, repairing these, and then doing cable work.
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