Possible collector’s item?

Found this in my garage. Yep, I’m that old`

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I saw a video the other day where a dad gave his teenage sons a rotary phone and 4 minutes to figure out how to use it.

They couldn’t do it.

I still use them every day at work but i work for the federal gov. so we are decades behind unless you are one of the fancy office people then they get the best of the best

Randy, my grandparents had that exact phone hanging in their hallway. It’s funny the details you remember after all these years.

I remember back before the breakup of the Bell Monopoly there was no option other than the phones that your local phone company offered. Basically everybody had the same phone. It was a really big deal when a house had more than one phone.

One of my friends in grade school had four sisters. It was really funny because their dad went crazy from having his line busy all the time so he actually had a separate phone line for the girls. It was actually listed in the phone book below the parents listing as “kids line”. It cost over $20 a month and that was in 1970s money.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

Randy, my grandparents had that exact phone hanging in their hallway. It’s funny the details you remember after all these years.

One of my friends in grade school had four sisters. It was really funny because their dad went crazy from having his line busy all the time so he actually had a separate phone line for the girls. It was actually listed in the phone book below the parents listing as “kids line”. It cost over $20 a month and that was in 1970s money.

It seemed like the families that had the kids line always had more daughters than sons at home.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

Randy, my grandparents had that exact phone hanging in their hallway. It’s funny the details you remember after all these years.

I remember back before the breakup of the Bell Monopoly there was no option other than the phones that your local phone company offered. Basically everybody had the same phone. It was a really big deal when a house had more than one phone.

One of my friends in grade school had four sisters. It was really funny because their dad went crazy from having his line busy all the time so he actually had a separate phone line for the girls. It was actually listed in the phone book below the parents listing as “kids line”. It cost over $20 a month and that was in 1970s money.

Seen this several times years ago.

Grouse, just think what parents pay for cell phone plans per phone now

We had a rotary phone with a party line when I was growing up! Could hear the neighbors hang up after you got done talking. The receiver had a cord connected to it so you couldn’t walk around!! Had to talk with your GF while mom was in kitchen.

yeah, phone was in the kitchen. why were most phone in the kitchen. seems like that is where i remember all of my friends phones being as well. the cord wasn’t even long enough to sit at the kitchen table and talk. lol

Luxury was having a 10 ft cord on your phone rather than the standard short cord. Then you could get out of the kitchen to talk on the phone!

They have rotary phones now??
I’m still using stone tablets and chisels and talking leaves!!
( Words written on paper )

The old phones,if you knew the pulse you could rattle the switch to dial a number.

Amazing what the old bittys would talk about on the party lines!!!
They knew what I was going to do before I even thought of it!

I have a friend that buys restores and sells old phones on E bay. Think that one is at least one or two generations too new. It’s the identical one at work when I retired 6 years ago. Anyone remember party lines. When I was a kid. It was sometime in jr. high school that we were allowed to use the phone except to talk to Grandparents in Detroit. If I wanted to talk to a friend two miles away, it was a quick bike ride. One dial phone and one b&w tv w/3 channels in the house. Imagine dropping that on a kid now.

calling the next town over 10 miles was calling long distance. Also, you didn’t need to dial the entire number. instead of 867-5039, it was just 7-5309.

remember when tv would go off the air at midnight? they would play the national anthem at midnight then it would be static until like 6 or 7am. such simpler times.

Iowaboy1 wrote:

They have rotary phones now??
I’m still using stone tablets and chisels and talking leaves!!
( Words written on paper )

The old phones,if you knew the pulse you could rattle the switch to dial a number.

Amazing what the old bittys would talk about on the party lines!!!
They knew what I was going to do before I even thought of it!

How about the Cap’n Crunch whistle where you would blow on it and get free long distance calls?

phishingruven wrote:

yeah, phone was in the kitchen.

That’s because everyone watched the TV show “Lassie” on Sunday nights. Their crank up phone was in the kitchen. Trend setters.

You’ll get some odd looks from the youngsters if you mention changing clothes in a phone booth.

Notice the phone number?

I’m working on the date of this tape measure.

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Found another artifact 😂

One of the very first batches of plastics I ever did. Glow curl tails about 40 something years old. I’m quite shocked they didn’t discolor more. But can’t touch them. They’re an oily glob of goo

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Think the first plastic ones are collectable. “bakelite?”

Brian Klawitter wrote:

Notice the phone number?

I’m working on the date of this tape measure.

Brian, this was our favorite store when I was a kid!! Loved that place.

buschman wrote:

Brian, this was our favorite store when I was a kid!! Loved that place.

That’s awesome! I thought I found a hardware store in Waterville that was still owned by a Hunte, but can’t find it now.

Maybe I should just try calling 114 on my rotary phone?

Randy Wieland wrote:

Found this in my garage. Yep, I’m that old`

Old, but not ancient….there’s still buttons on that there phone. I’ve got a few dial types with actual bells inside kickin’ around someplace.

I have one or two nice touch-tone phones left. And my original Buttset.

I still have the twin to that phone in the laundry room and it still works fine. Grand kids are amazed by it
Remember when calling the next town was long distance?

Mwal

Brian Klawitter wrote:

Notice the phone number?

I’m working on the date of this tape measure.

My mother had a tape measure like that in her tool drawer. She got her’s when the Coast to Coast in Rosemount moved into a larger space in the mid 60’s. Phone numbers used 5 digits then so yours must be from the 50’s or earlier.

Is that a Princess owned by a Princess? LOL. Sorry, Randy, could not resist.

And kids today don’t know what a busy signal is.