The Rotary Phone

I remember when we had one of these in the kitchen hanging on the wall when I was a kid and the cord was always all knotted up, lol.

Here's what the kids today have to say about them..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkuirEweZvM"]KIDS REACT TO ROTARY PHONES - YouTube

 

You rememeber as a kid? I remember up until the last day I saw my mom last year. She would use nothing else. The phone company had to keep coming up with a rotary phone for her. She did not want any advanced technology.....at all.....

She would not even go cordless.....

 

friend house was 4XX922XXXX but then you didnt need area code. so you could dial 911 by mistake very often. fuxtat..

 

That kid who said he wants a rotary phone in his house because he likes old fashioned things was very cute......

 

would still work here

i have rotary service

 

you could actually dial just by using the switch and not touch the dial

 

One of our house phones IS a (Big, Old) black rotary phone, and it is the kind that sits on the "phone table", not mounted to the wall. It has to weigh at least 10 pounds. lol

 

Some things were much more visceral with those old rotary phones. You could slam down the receiver if you were pissed off and believe me you could tell if someone slammed you..ouch!. You could throw a dial phone through a wall, or knock someone out with it in self-defense!

Having to dial the full number over and over every time when the other end was busy and you needed to get through, if you were a impatient you could really yank that dial around. There was a distinct and somehow satisfying mechanical ratcheting sound that got louder and more insistent the harder and faster you dialed, but always the same speed returning....
zzzzzit...tak tak tak tak tak

lol a really observant person could guess the number you dialed simply by the memory of how long it takes for each stroke to come back from the stop.... Dialing a zero was the longest stroke, and dialing multiple zeros in a row efficiently was almost an athletic event! lol :biggrin:

The biggest thing I remember with the old landline dial phones was sound quality, you could talk over each other and still understand what the other person was saying.

 

phone were often used as weapons in movies and tv shoes. Ive not seen a phone bashing scene in years. unless its on Metv or something..

 

I've never thought of that before, but it is definitely a thing. In numerous movies.

I have a couple rotary phones in my house.

 

My lady and I make a day of thrift store shopping. We were at one one day and I hear this kid start whining. He's saying, "Please dad..pleeeease.. I really want this typewriter!" The kid was probably 11 and the typewriter was a little blue manual one from the mid sixties, of which I own a few. I saw the kid begging his dad to buy it for him and thought it was pretty cool of that kid to want something so esoteric at such a young age.

Anyway, the dad refused and I quickly snatched it up for ten bucks.

 

LOL, My mom got arrested for assault with a deadly weapon back in 1975 because she got pissed at some social worker and clocked her upside the head with one of those gnarly old rotary desk phones.

I'll bet her head looked like this afterward;
:conehead:

 

It is weird that this topic came up today, as I had a stream of nightmares last night, of which I awoke, as they were terrifying...In one of the segments, I was placing a telephone call to my mother on the other side...I knew this call was going to the dead in the dream....and someone else I know answered and that is still alive and sad some weird things.....

 

The Phone I Would Love To Have Now Was A Timber

Wall Phone With A Handpiece You Held To Your Ear, And You Spoke

Into A Microphone On The Wall Phone, When I Was A Little Rug-Rat

I Had To Stand On A Chair To Use It....

Then Came The Big Black One With A Normal Handset And A Crank

In The Middle To Call The Local Exchange....

Then Came The Dial Phone Similar To What Those Kids Are Using.

Then A Series Of Totally Unreliable Touch Phones *apperently the

designers had never heard of static electricity and it's effects

on a touch keypad*....

And Nowdays, An All Singing, All Dancing Fully Reliable Pushbutton...:2thumbsup:



Cheers Glen.

 

when i was little, the only phones that weren't rotary, had a crank on the side and a couple of giant single cell batteries. and your phone number consisted of long and short crankings on it.

the first touch tone phones, i think i was already in high school.

 

Ghost phone/jungle phone.

 

this is what I miss, the reliability and sturdiness of things in the past

 

^Me too.

 

I still keep a rotary phone as if the power goes out the cordless ones do not function.

In the country we still had a party line up until about 20 years ago. Our ring was one long one short.

 

"I just know my iPod is not like this" lmao