I get a phone call

[chuckeb]

I want 6o know how you got that thing into your pocket!

 

[Woodsman]

Old, wheres the rotary dial? Push button is way to modern. When I was a kid there was one public phone in the township and only a few private phones around the little 4 corner hamlet. The public phone was the local phone company switchboard and the operator would use the old patch cable plug panel to patch your call through amd then pass you the old phone with separate pedestal mic and speaker plieces. Then technology hit and we got a pay phone only a mile away in a standalone booth (with a light when the door closed... wow). When phone lines were eventually run into the area in the 1960's, we got a phone in the house on "a party line". We thought we had died and gone to heaven. I still remember our ring was one long and two short. I would love to have some of that old technology around the place today for show and tell to the kids if they could stop texting on the cells and take an interest that is.

 

[480sparky]

No, you know what's OLD? Old is when--like me--you see that picture and you think "oh, that's one of those newfangled push-button phones..." :lmao:

OooOOOoooOOOhhh... "Touch Tone"! How absolutely marvelous!"

 

[jameswl2007]

i think this smash and grab got there before me