[DallasBiff]

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.

[kjam22]

My first phone looked like that. Bill was $7.65 per month.

[Disambiguator]

I have one of those on my desk at home. It’s not plugged in, as we don’t have landline service.

[Repeal The 17th]

I have one of these...

[Ciaphas Cain]

What phones looked like in some places in the 1960s:

[Pollard]

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.

[dadfly]

ah yes, the phone from the day when phones served you, instead of you serving them. good times.

[Sarcazmo]

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?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.

[Indy Pendance]

My brother has our old one, it weighs a ton! He doesn’t have a landline, it’s for ‘decoration’

[Leaning Right]

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.)

[Chode]

my aunt & uncle had one of these...

[brianl703]

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.

[enumerated]

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.

[Inyo-Mono]

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.

[READINABLUESTATE]

That’s exactly what I grew up.

Better days...

[FreedomPoster]

Western Electric made stuff that would survive a nuclear war.

[Trump_Triumphant]

The good old days.

[MomwithHope]

I was probably between 2 and 3 we had that phone, they were heavy. I vividly remember standing next to the cabinet it was on. Pulled on the wire and it came down and hit me on the head. Guess that explains a lot.

[Paladin2]

What ehat phones......

[firebrand]

We had a wall phone with a party line at one time. If you picked up the receiver while the other party was on the phone, you could listen to their conversation. We were taught to hang up right away of course. Good training.