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What Phones Looked Like the Decade You Were Born
Reader's Digest ^
| 11/14/22
| Morgan Cutolo
Posted on 07/07/2024 4:44:37 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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Gawd, I remember those phones, my dad had a business arguement with a customer, and threw the phone against the wall, which made a big dent in the plaster.
I know, I'm getting old, I remember when Readers Digest was on every coffee table.
To: DallasBiff
My first phone looked like that. Bill was $7.65 per month.
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posted on
07/07/2024 4:46:15 PM PDT
by
kjam22
To: DallasBiff
I have one of those on my desk at home. It’s not plugged in, as we don’t have landline service.
To: DallasBiff
I have one of these...
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posted on
07/07/2024 4:48:06 PM PDT
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: DallasBiff
What phones looked like in some places in the 1960s:
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posted on
07/07/2024 4:48:52 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
("If they can do that to Trump then they can do that to YOU." -- Lazamataz)
To: DallasBiff
Phones in the 1960s moved away from the rotary style and introduced push buttons. Growing up in the 80s, we had a rotary dial wall phone. If it ain't broke, don't fix replace it.
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posted on
07/07/2024 4:52:18 PM PDT
by
Pollard
(Will work for high tunnel money!)
To: DallasBiff
ah yes, the phone from the day when phones served you, instead of you serving them. good times.
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posted on
07/07/2024 4:53:58 PM PDT
by
dadfly
To: DallasBiff
Remember how long it took to dial a number?
And how pissed you got when you got a number wrong and had to start over?
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posted on
07/07/2024 4:54:10 PM PDT
by
Sarcazmo
(I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
To: DallasBiff
LOL...I had a boss with an extremely short fuse. He liked to berate people. One day he really lost it, ripped the phone out and threw it across the room, smashing into the wall.
He was a VP at the time and I figured that was the end of the line for him. He went on to become president of the company! It was a sad end for him, though. He contracted a fatal disease in his 60s and killed himself.
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posted on
07/07/2024 4:59:58 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
To: Sarcazmo
Always jealous of the kids with touch dialing.
Be the 10th caller...and here I am with a rotary dial phone.
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posted on
07/07/2024 5:01:08 PM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
To: Repeal The 17th
I have a crank telephone.
To: DallasBiff
My brother has our old one, it weighs a ton! He doesn’t have a landline, it’s for ‘decoration’
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posted on
07/07/2024 5:02:16 PM PDT
by
Indy Pendance
(Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
To: DallasBiff
I was on a party line in my first apartment. I doubt if many people under 55 or so even know what a party line is…unless they watch old TV shows.
(And no, kids. It had nothing to do with partying.)
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posted on
07/07/2024 5:03:08 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: DallasBiff
my aunt & uncle had one of these...
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posted on
07/07/2024 5:03:34 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: DallasBiff
2500 series desk phones and 2554 series wall phones are still made today in the USA by Cortelco in Corinth, MS. This company used to be owned by ITT, and prior to that if I recall correctly it was owned by the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply company.
To: DallasBiff
I still have the one from the house I grew up in during the 1950s. It’s not hooked up to anything, but it’s sitting on my home office desk and looks exactly like the one that picture.
My friends only had to dial the four numbers 1179 to reach me. The WILSON 7 (947) exchange was not necessary unless someone was calling from another town.
I think the area codes existed, but they were only used by adults making long distance calls.
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posted on
07/07/2024 5:06:09 PM PDT
by
enumerated
(W81 million votes my ass)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
“killed himself”.
Good! I HATE men who have no impulse control or coping skills. Hate.
I’m sure there are women in that category, too, but I don’t know them.
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posted on
07/07/2024 5:06:59 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Bannon didn't kill himself.)
To: HombreSecreto
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posted on
07/07/2024 5:10:02 PM PDT
by
Sarcazmo
(I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
To: DallasBiff
I didn’t have a phone like the one pictured until the ‘70s. The old early 1950s phone was bulkier, and the numbers where inside the rotary. It also had a brown cloth cord.
To: DallasBiff
That’s exactly what I grew up.
Better days...
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posted on
07/07/2024 5:11:58 PM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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