Posted on 08/24/2014 12:11:18 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Kids reacting to technology of the past, this time around, it's rotary phones. Amazing how technology changes so quickly.
In a few years they’ll be confused by a digital watch
Today’s HOT mobile phone will be the string and marble Abacus ten years from now.
Ours was National 4-9154
How do I still remember that, and I can’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday morning?
Lol.... Good times were had at that number.
At the going rate democracy and capitalism will both be a thing of the past.
My niece was operating an iphone at 2! Even knew the password to unlock it. She wouldn’t know how to dial a rotary phone at 5.
HOpkins 7-4401
Had to think about giving out this phone number.
Liberty 4-9164
That was Ontario, Canada.
I used to tutor and had a rotary phone in my classroom in our basement. The kids thought it was so cool - they actually thought it was the latest thing!
My House in Detroit was Lakeview 6.
Right, we had a phone number like that. If you’d asked me ten years ago, i could’ve told you what it was. Also, we had a “party” line, but few concerns about privacy.
CR5-4703
From 1966
How do I remember that?
I had my friends 8 year old twins in my car yesterday. They were amazed at what they called “natural” windows. They had hand cranks that they had never seen before.
FA 13051. Originally a party line...remember those?
We were ORegon 7, in NYC which I think was considered pretty classy. Not quite as good as BUtterfield 8 but OK. And there was another one, downtown by OR, that was thought even classier, but I’ll never be able to remember what it was.
http://youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo
“They were amazed at what they called “natural” windows.”
I like that, very cute turn of phrase.
Butterfield 8. Wasn’t that a movie with script written by Tennesee E. Ford, and included in young Elizabeth Taylor in the cast? She did a good job faking a ‘Whiskey-Sour’ southern accent.
Yes, I actually watched it not too long ago. It was quite lurid. She’s some kind of call girl or something, it wasn’t really clear to me what was going on.
That was a little before my time. It he only number from that era that I know of is from Junior Samples: BR-549; “As honest as the day is long”
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