OT - how phones used to be

[biggunsbob]

I remember all those phones except the ones from the 50's probably but i remember when I was little at my grandma's house in Hastings out on messer road off of M-43 and i was told not to use the phone because it was a party line. Damn now i wish i had kept some of those old rotary phones..

 

[redandguilty]

I never learned phone numbers that way. What is even crazier is that today I don't think I know any phone numbers from memory. Everything is on speed dial!!

In highschool, I broke up with a girl whose phone number ended in 1834 and then dated a girl with the same number except it ended in 1384. Cells phones really coulda helped back then.

 

[Diggler Cometh]

I used to go fishing with a rotary telephone when I was a kid..

 

[rito67]

The phone company use to supply you the phone as well. That green "princess" phone was the shit at one time....

 

[KAWDUP]

Phone history

For the longest time when I was a kid, our number was LI (Lincoln) 5-3543.

Wow! Mine growing up was Li3-1893

Ferndale or close by?

Also had one of those black rotary dial phones that had a very distinctive and loud click as it passed each number on the way back to rest.

 

[deathroh]

I used to go fishing with a rotary telephone when I was a kid..

I might have to log in to the proboards to +1 you for that one.