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All so we can get calls about auto warranties, irs debts,computer viruses, etc.
I remember party lines and having only 4 digits for a phone number. Ours was 7117 and my grand parents’ was 7049......But I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night.
“Oh, Gramps, that’s yummy!” :-)
Sounds very interesting. I love this sort of thing. Unfortunately, I no longer click on YouTube links. I think I will not miss it in two or three minutes since my mind will be filled with something completely different by then.
A commercial portraying adults acting like adults. Todays commercials are juvenile by comparison.
There are some interesting videos on YouTube showing how they were made too. Unlike today’s phones they were designed for a 40 year service life.
We still have one. :)
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I want a cellphone with a pulse dial on it. ;)
EDgewater7-2154.
I’m sticking with the crank telephone.
Prescott #-####
Here us a later one, “Operator;” (1969) a 14 minute film directed by Neil Cox https://youtu.be/bAC4MvP_C-I -— Enjoyable film.
Rotary dial phone, there’s an app for that.
I saw a video where they put three modern-day teenagers in a room with a dial telephone and they couldn’t figure out what it was or how to operate it.
To be honest, I was a little skeptical.
I vaguely remember when the phone numbers at Logan Airport in Boston (where my father worked) all started out with “LO-7” followed by a four digit number. The actual prefix dialed was “567” but originally the “LO” stood for Logan.
Back in the 60’s, we would occasionally get wrong numbers. They would apologize, hang up and call right back - insisting they had dialed the correct number, usually one digit off. You can imagine the fun - “I KNOW I DIALED THE RIGHT NUMBER!” after about three tries.
Finally, a phone tech figured it out. At busy times, the local system brought older equipment on line, and these racks would sometimes mess up on certain numbers. They just changed our number.
Grandpop there looks like Mitch McConnell. Other than that, enjoyable blast from the past.
Amazing how slow the times were. They were also a great deal more pleasant.