Rotary Dial Cell Phone!!!

[Imp]

Phone number as a kid was 5-XXXX.

Still is Dad's number.

Imp

 

[zzGypsy]

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bet you walked to school in the snow too. uphill. both ways.

that's ok, I did too

 

[speckledhen]

I still have a corded phone, push button with no redial for when the power goes out. Cordless ones are useless then.


And I still remember my phone number as a child. It was BU 4-3799 (BUTLER 4-3799 or, 284-3799 before you needed the area code).

 

[EweSheep]

Well I wasn't born in THAT age of telephones of hand cranked ones but just seeing it on the Waltons makes me think of it.

I remember the four numbers when I looked at old telephone directory books while I was doing research on my family tree. funny how many people have telephones back in the 40s and 50s than they did at the turn of the century.

I bet some of the telephone companies repair techy guys would go ooooooooooooh's and aaaaaaaaaaaah's over OLD telephones that needs to be in their collections! Heck I would let them have the darn thing if I have it!

 

[gmendoza]

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Speckie hen!!

I knew I would lure you out of those mountains to speak your piece about dated phones.

I wouldnt doubt, you being up there, you still would have two empty tomato cans tied together with a mile of bailing wire as phones.

 

[EweSheep]

 

[gryeyes]

Oh my. I remember them! The phone number when I was a little girl was Meadowbrook 5-4562, in Novato, California. That would be 53 years ago.

 

[speckledhen]

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Speckie hen!!

I knew I would lure you out of those mountains to speak your piece about dated phones.

I wouldnt doubt, you being up there, you still would have two empty tomato cans tied together with a mile of bailing wire as phones.

ala the Progresso commercial, eh?

 

[Mudsow]

Yep, fulton8-xxxx (still dad's number too) we had a "phone table" like a sideways school desk. Phone books were stored in the open part of the desk. I actually still have the phone chair,just now you can get up while you talk.

 

[stoopid]

And don't get me going with the phone books!
A customer left his credit card in the store the other day, it was impossible to find him.
I went online, and if I wanted, I could PAY for a search.
All I wanted to do was call him... ugh