Old Phone

This is going to sound crazy I know, but I got a old wall hanging ,Dial phone from a friend yesterday, hung it on the wall in my shop, and it works. I really got it to show my granddaughter how things use to be. , and after using it a couple of times, I can't get over how good it feels to hold the receiver and talk on it an take the time to dial the number. Takes me back to simpler times instantly. Which dearly miss. I was born in 1950 and slow to adapt to this new world. Thanks for listing to me rattle.

 

I am in total agreement with you!
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Almost bought this last weekend, might still..

 

Agree 100%. We have an old rotary from the '30's we use when the power goes out. Still works like new.

Some time ago, they use to sell a old time receiver that you could plug into your cell phone. Not that same, I know, but kind of neat.

 

Thanks for moving, Here's a picture, nothing special, but sure feels good using it compared to my little flip

Yes I see it, like mine only red. Man really like all your cars! You my friend you are a lucky man.
phone.

 

How many people actually know the phone numbers of the people they are calling. The only one I really know is my daughters. I could actually call her up if I only had access to a rotary phone. Shes the only one, everybody else I would be S.O.L.
I got rid of my land line because I was paying over $50 a month to receive robo calls and telemarketers.

 

Western Electric 1920’s candlestick phone with bulldog mouthpiece. I had it hooked up to Ma Bell years ago, don’t know if it is compatible with our Comcast landline now.

 

That's cool. My Greatgrand Mother still had a crank phone in the 50s, also no electric, an out house.

 

............Now if we could just get the rest of the world to follow along.

 

My daughter was making fun of me, due to lack of tech savviness, if that's a word. So, I ordered a rotary dial phone off ebay. When she got home from school, I told her to call her grandma. She wandered into the kitchen and I hear "What's that thing?" A phone, call your grandma. She stood there perplexed for minutes....Eventually, she stuck her fingers in the circle, but nothing happened.

She doesn't make fun of me anymore.

 

Nothing feels more substantial that an old Western Electric phone. I've got landline at work, credit card processor running through it, and after the others here wanted to throw mine away, I put it on my desk, and threatened death to any who touched it.
I was ecstatic when I found out it would still work on the new lines.
It's at least 50 years old, maybe much older. The rotary phones I bought 20-30 years ago from the store always felt like shit.
I was born in '52.

 

Yep, it just fells right, makes me smile every time I use it.

 

........and of course they were created long before everything was ergonomically designed by a computer. Imagine that!

 

These still work

 

Does the payphone work?

 

This thread hits real close to home. I worked at Western Electric back in the day until it was obliterated by Judge Green during the break-up of Ma Bell. I spent 25 years at the Atlanta Service Center & we were the last of the 34 regional service centers before Lucent Technologies close us down & sent our work to Mexico. We junked thousands of some of the same phones that are pictured on this thread unfortunately. Here are my vintage Western Electric phones that are still in use around my house & garage.

 

awg, post: 13035868, member: 160"]Does the payphone work?[/QUOTE] It works as a regular phone, when connected to a regular phone line.

 

Another wonderful service that was shitcanned for something “better”. I have absolutely no desire to own the telephone. I liked it much better when Ma Bell owned the sonaofbitch and we just used it. I remember those phones, and the phone repairman, and I’m only 44.


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Thanks for posting this. I have never owned a cell and often I feel like I don't fit in the "modern world".

Here is the first and only rotary phone I've ever owned, that you had to lease by the month back when I bought my first home in 1975. Was it $1 per month, I believe? Many years later, the Phone Company said "no more monthly leases", but they offered to sell it to you for $1. We did buy it. Then when "the then wife" went to cordless, I used it in my shop. Then it also went in the next shop, and now as a back up in my kitchen with it's loud bell which helps.

Sad to say about modern quality.... that I bought a pair of ATT landline cordless ones a year ago, and over 4 months, both crapped out as far as "neither will ring unless it's the one is in the master holder"! So, I can't take either one outside, or to the shop if I am out there and am waiting for a call back. It won't ring!

...but that turned out to be a blessing....because I'd refrain from using noisy equipment to not "miss a call". ( if they want to, they just leave a message, right?) Why be controlled by a phone of any kind.

BTW, I am 68 and I remember only dialing 5 numbers.

 

I was born in 1981. The first phone I remember and used was a rotary. I still have a home phone attached to the wall and the receiver is on a cord.

God, I hate the fact cell phone have become a way of life!

Bring back rotary phones, points ignition, drum brakes, and Coke in glass bottles for a nickel!

 

As Alexander Gram Bell intended!

 

Yours looks just like mine. I told the wife that I might replace the one in our kitchen with another one and she said that would be fine.

 

This is my inside phone booth, set up in my basement. Phone is a reproduction but it works. I also have an outside drive up phone. My collection just hit 170!

 

Wow, that is too cool!

 

Hi F&J.I`m 73,and I remember when you only had to dial 4 numbers.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

I have land lines in our home too. My daughter did get me one of those camera's with a built in phone. I just turn the ringy thing off. Lol Ron....

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