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Posted on 07/27/2013 1:00:37 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Exit148
I remember those tall phones. I used to use one at my grandparents house. I loved it! Then they got a “modern” phone, only it was very modern. :)
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posted on
07/27/2013 4:27:16 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: ProtectOurFreedom
The Princess phone was awesome [at the time]. Beige. Then there were beige regular phones. Then the pink Princess!!
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posted on
07/27/2013 4:36:50 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Dallas59
I remember when we finally got a rotary phone. It was a big deal for us. Here's a pic of the type of phone we had on our wall, until I was about 15 yrs. old.
To: The Antiyuppie
LOL We just pick up the ear piece and if no one was talking we’d asked Velma to connect us to Uncle Bill! She knew every bodies business.
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posted on
07/27/2013 5:55:05 PM PDT
by
23 Everest
(When seconds count. The police are just 23 minutes away. 831 Bonnie)
To: Dallas59
I remember when push-button phones first came out. Everybody wondered what the pound key and star key were for, and the phone company would just reply, “That’s for the future.” I kept my rotary phone long after most people had push button. I remember people visiting me and asking to use my phone, and they’d complain and gripe about the rotary. But I always liked it. Somehow it was more satisfying to dial on a rotary.
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posted on
07/27/2013 6:24:25 PM PDT
by
Nea Wood
(When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
To: Exit148; Ditter
They were called Candlestick Phones.
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posted on
07/27/2013 6:28:32 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: 23 Everest
I remember those numbers. Ours was HUnter-8.
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posted on
07/27/2013 6:37:32 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
To: Mears
I never heard that before. ha ha!
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posted on
07/27/2013 6:39:11 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
I didn’t know the tall phones were called that either!
Our tel.# was Ocean 3262, and then things got complicated when it became Ocean 3262W! What a long way we’ve come!
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posted on
07/27/2013 7:19:24 PM PDT
by
Exit148
To: Exit148
The phone that I remember was my grandparents phone and it had a circular dial down on the base. I was about 12 so that would have been 1952 when they got a new phone. I remember being disappointed.
My father in law had a party line out on his ranch in the 60’s. That is a trip! LOL! People listening in on other people conversations.
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posted on
07/27/2013 7:33:07 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
My father in law had a party line out on his ranch in the 60s. That is a trip! LOL! People listening in on other people conversations. Now only Washington does.
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