Posted on 03/03/2014 9:54:47 AM PST by US Navy Vet
Too Funny!
... That would be “rotary” for those speaking English.
You really wanna blow their minds, put ‘em on a party line!
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My great grandmother had a party line with 2 of her neighbors when I was a kid.
Party Lines are like FaceBook with no pictures...............
I’m for rotary dialers on cell phones big enough to fit my fingers. Those little buttons drive me nuts.
When my dad passed away two years ago, I had to sell his car and I took my 12-yr old son for a ride in it. It was a no frills small Chevy. He started laughing when I showed him how to put down the windows with the manual crank - he said "are you serious?". It dawned on me that he had never been in a car without power windows.
My grandmother did too. She lived at the end of a private lane, and her son (my uncle) and her daugther (my aunt) lived in two houses on the same lane, and they all shared one line.
Overproduced. Too much effort to be cool. Kids must have been coached as their main thoughts have to do with it being old fashioned and laughable. Could have shown them being instructed on how to dial a number.
We were one of 4 on our party line...
Our ring was long short long
:)
Or give ‘em one with a HOLD button..
or those not using a dial keyboard ;-)
You should have seen when my young son first saw a roll-up window in old vehicle that we recently borrowed...He was thrilled...and wondered why cars/trucks aren’t made with manual window openers....
They did show that.
We had a party line in the 1950’s. When we got a private line in 1960, it was a joyful occasion. I sometimes wonder which is worse—The party lines of the 1950’s or the voice mail of today.
I have a non-operational one on my wall just so I can dial the 0. Still get a kick out of the sound it makes.
Party lines were great for nosy neighbors.
Until a few years ago, I was using a 1959 rotary phone in my home. It had a better sound than my modern phones and the solid plastic receiver was pleasant to hold.
I was actually somewhat sickened by that.
The pop culture affect and vernacular of the children, the deliberate, conspicuous, calculated multiculturalism, the trendiness ...
Bleh ...
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