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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 4 2006, 12:40 AM (190 Views) | |
| Daniel\ | Aug 4 2006, 12:40 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/index2.html Do you miss the old phone company and the old phones and dialing "0" for anything you needed? I do but maybe I miss the whole era of my childhood in the late '60's and early '70's. Sigh. |
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| Dewey | Aug 4 2006, 03:42 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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There's nothing like the distinct feel on your fingertip of dialing (not just in name, but really "dialing") a phone number on an old rotary phone. The resistance you feel, and the distinct whirring sound. But the sound wasn't a constant pitch, because as you dialed the number, your finger picked up speed as it started the downward part of the arc and ended at the finger guard, so it sounded kind of like: Whrrrrr,ZIP - click, click, click, click, click. Whrrrrr,ZIP - click, click, click. Whrrrrr,ZIP - click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. We have an old rotary phone in our basement. It's one of the old "Phone Company" phones, built like a Soviet Tank and about as heavy. I remember plugging it in to use it once, and the girls had no idea how to use it.
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| dolmansaxlil | Aug 4 2006, 04:00 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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My great grandmother had a rotary phone hanging on the wall in her hallway my entire childhood and it was the only phone she had til she died in the late 90s. I always loved using it. As I got older and more used to the plastic phones everyone used, I was always surprised by the weight of the receiver in my hand when I used hers. When I was a kid, we only had to dial the last four numbers if we were calling within our own town. I remember when they switched it over to having to dial all 7 numbers, and everyone was so annoyed by the change. Now we have to dial the area code as well, but that's new, and I still forget to do it and end up getting the recording message reminding me. My grandparents had a party line until just a couple of years ago when the phone company finally told them that they had to switch over to a normal phone line. |
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| John D'Oh | Aug 4 2006, 04:07 AM Post #4 |
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MAMIL
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I didn't live in the US when you had the old phone company, but if it's anything like the British Post Office was prior to deregulation, I'd be happy to dress up in silly clothes and DANCE ON IT'S GRAVE! |
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| apple | Aug 4 2006, 05:01 AM Post #5 |
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one of the angels
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a monopoly.. deserves to be broken. Everest an underground cable pnone internet company dug into our neighbor hood and offered deals that blew away the competition.. i called ATT to tell them Everest had come and they knocked 20$ off my high speed internet dsl .. YES! we still might get Everest when we can trust the kiddies not to watch too much TV.....(cable which is just too inviting for the undisciplined) |
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