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17 yr olds trying to figure out a rotary phone
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BuckyB93 Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, Jun 25 2020, 10:52 PM EST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_kwiuHxbg
CelticBomber Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 12:41 AM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_kwiuHxbg


That was hilarious! I was really hoping to read some funny comments on the video but they disabled them.
Notthe1 Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 7:28 AM EST
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I work for an evil telecom, so my kids now how to use a rotary phone. I thought they were cool, so I kept one in my house. Not sure if their friend would know how.
Krazeehorse Offline
#4 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 7:47 AM EST
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My mother and grandmother worked for North Electric way back in the day. My grandma had an Ericaphone which I thought was the neatest thing on the planet. It was from the future.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=ericaphone&fr=yhs-iba-1&hspart=iba&hsimp=yhs-1&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmini.ptt-museum.dk%2Ftelefonmuseet%2Fwebimages%2Fb0029.jpg#id=3&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmini.ptt-museum.dk%2Ftelefonmuseet%2Fwebimages%2Fb0029.jpg&action=click
Notthe1 Offline
#5 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 8:35 AM EST
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Don't think I ever came across one of those in my travels as a Field tech. Although I do wish I had kept some of the old Princess phones Customers were getting rid of.
frankj1 Offline
#6 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 3:26 PM EST
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with the lighted dial?
might have one somewhere...
Numismaniac Offline
#7 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 4:12 PM EST
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I had two elderly couples that were neighbors and were part of the "daycare" setup my parents utilized to help watch me while they and my siblings were 10-12 miles away in the nearest small town at work and school. From then time I was around 2-5, then we moved to the edge of the small town city limits when I was in 1st grade, 5-6 years old. We had a rotary type, but the two elderly couples and a few others in that small and VERY rural old community still had hand crank, party line phones in their houses!!! If you picked up the receiver, even on the rotary phones and didn't dial after a short dial tone, an operator would pick up in the nearest town and ask if you needed help. We're talking the 1960's and a small individual owned Telephone company!! OH< the stories I can tell.
delta1 Offline
#8 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 5:22 PM EST
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fog


anybody remember the alpha numeric numbers? this is how we said our phone numbers back in the 50's :

AXminster2-5558 = 292-5558
Notthe1 Offline
#9 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 6:49 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
with the lighted dial?
might have one somewhere...


Those with the lights and the separate ringer that had actual bells in it.
frankj1 Offline
#10 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 7:36 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
fog


anybody remember the alpha numeric numbers? this is how we said our phone numbers back in the 50's :

AXminster2-5558 = 292-5558

no problem remembering the exchanges growing up

LAsalle 7- 5555
DEcataur 2-5555
BIgelow 4-5555

people were so conditioned to it that when someone told you his/her number you'd actually write the letters!
frankj1 Offline
#11 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 7:37 PM EST
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Notthe1 wrote:
Those with the lights and the separate ringer that had actual bells in it.

yup
tonygraz Offline
#12 Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2020, 8:17 PM EST
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I seem to remember a pink one that my daughter had in her room. I have no idea what happened to it.
Mr. Jones Offline
#13 Posted: Sat, Jun 27 2020, 8:53 AM EST
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I miss them.
Mr. Jones Offline
#14 Posted: Sat, Jun 27 2020, 8:54 AM EST
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I really miss "pay phones"...

The best ILLEGAL ACTIVITY item ever invented in the entire world...plus I miss fake PASSPORTS READILY AVAILABLE IN THE 1980's...
Notthe1 Offline
#15 Posted: Sat, Jun 27 2020, 9:25 AM EST
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Mr. Jones wrote:
I really miss "pay phones"...

The best ILLEGAL ACTIVITY item ever invented in the entire world.


I remember calling someone collect and when the "puter" would ask my name I would just say the phone number.
Then my friends would decline the collect call and dial then number, and there was my free call. Oh, the good old days.
izonfire Offline
#16 Posted: Sat, Jun 27 2020, 12:46 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
no problem remembering the exchanges growing up

LAsalle 7- 5555
DEcataur 2-5555
BIgelow 4-5555

people were so conditioned to it that when someone told you his/her number you'd actually write the letters!

Growing up in the Chicago area,
one number is embedded in my brain -
HUdson 3 2 7 hundred

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-chicago-television-ads-20140327-htmlstory.html
Scroll down to Boushelle

Though all of those ads were classic cheese...
frankj1 Offline
#17 Posted: Sat, Jun 27 2020, 6:24 PM EST
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local rug cleaning company had a tv commercial with the jingle

how many cookies did Andrew eat?
Andrew ate eight thousand.
How do you keep your carpets clean?
Call Andrew 8-8000
thurson Offline
#18 Posted: Sun, Jun 28 2020, 1:03 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
no problem remembering the exchanges growing up

LAsalle 7- 5555
DEcataur 2-5555
BIgelow 4-5555

people were so conditioned to it that when someone told you his/her number you'd actually write the letters!



I grew up in Seattle in the late 40s, and our numbers up until we moved in 1956 were:

FRanklin 0263
FRanklin 2-0263
EAst 2-0263

Another interesting note is that when the prefix changed from Franklin to East so did our street change from 19th Avenue North to 19th Avenue East.

And no, that is not a typo. Our first phone number was only 6 characters, and a party line of course.

This concludes your fog lesson of the day. We now return you to normal programming.
frankj1 Offline
#19 Posted: Sun, Jun 28 2020, 2:04 PM EST
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spent a year or two in Seneca Falls NY 1971-72.
Only needed to dial the last 4 numbers for anywhere within the town.
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