Awhile back I visited a friend at her house. To my surprise, she had a working rotary phone in her kitchen. What memories!
I asked her if I could use it, for old times sake. She said yes. So I made a crank call to Nancy Pelosi, and told her that there was a worldwide Botox shortage.
There’s a guy in San Luis Obispo, CA that finds old rotary phones (like from the 1940s) and restores them. New paint, new cloth cord cover, same old timey ring. And they’re nice and heavy. I used to have one. :)
So I made a crank call to Nancy Pelosi, and told her that there was a worldwide Botox shortage.”””
That is funny.
When I sold my house in 1993 in So Calif, the rotary wall phone was still there. When that buyer sold the house, he said it was still there.....
The phone I use now is a 40+ or so year old Princess phone. No caller ID. No *69 call back-—no call waiting. Just a simple phone & a $20 answering machine.
Am planning on moving this year & driving over 2000 miles hauling horses over 5 days. Everyone keeps hammering at me to buy a cell phone—because ‘You cannot drive that far without a cell phone”.
I have driven over 1 MILLION miles & did all of it without a cell phone. Have a CB if I have a problem. Otherwise-—I am not worried.
I use modern cordless phones (three linked to one base station) for the VOIP “landline” phone.
However, I loathe, despise and abominate the chirpy “ringer”, in all of its tunes, modes, whatevers that the phones would use... if I let them.
So, I bought an oldish black rotary phone and hooked it into the system. It’s attractive in its way and the ringing of the mechanical bell is far superior.
My home came with a disconnected wall hookup... so I bought a chocolate brown 70’s wall phone and hung it there. It does nothing, but looks quite correct!
One can answer and talk on the rotary phone, but not call out on it. The wall phone is an early touch-tone, and IF it was hooked up, could make calls and navigate those annoying “to _____, press 3” menus.