A rotary dial phone

[davidpizzica]

I wonder how many people remember those? I hooked one up today temporarily because my cordless phone passed away. I think this one is vintage 1963! I'll have to get used to the dial for a week until I get paid this friday and can buy a new cordless phone. What an antique!

[Freedom]

I giggle when I see them as I am watching old movies!

I have several in the cellar for 'emergencies."

[lvpets2002]

Oh yes I remember the black ones with the receiver on top.. I also remember having Switch Boards && Party Lines.. They were bummerrss..

[Moesha]

I saw one sitting out somewhere the other day. It wasn't plugged in though. Then I was using a phone at the same place and heard the rotary dialing. Someone had changed the phone from tone to pulse. (or pulse to tone whichever one it is.) None of my phones here have that option anymore. Not anywhere that I can find anyway. BTW I changed the phone back to tone.

[Karen]

We had one for all my growing up years - my town was one of the last to get "touch tone" dialing capability. And we do still have a rotary phone in the basement of this house, it isn't hooked up, but could be if we needed it!

[cassiesmom]

Until about 6 months ago, there was an avocado green rotary dial telephone in the spare bedroom at my mom and dad's house. It even had the "word" phone sticker on it - remember those? In my case, growing up it was "GU-4" for Gunderson, but I don't know how they came up with the words. When my youngest niece was able to dial a push button phone, they were visiting grandma and granddad. My niece needed to phone her best friend. She went into the spare bedroom, took one look at the phone and said "How do you use this thing?" (Grandma and granddad have a cordless phone in the kitchen by the way) Back in the day the telephone came from the telephone company - you didn't go purchase one. I also remember when Illinois Bell used to charge more for service if you had a touch tone phone. The green phone has been replaced with a little push button phone, one that's not cordless. But we still laugh over "How do you use this thing?!" even though my niece gets so embarrassed when we tell the story!

[Husky_mom]

they sure were made to flip you out of your mind..... LOL.......

now that we have to dial up to 13 numbers (for cellphone) it would be the cause of serious stress having misdialed the last number......LMAO

I did enjoyed them at the time you only dialed like 5 numbers......oh those times.... adn I loved when the parents removed the dialing disk to "prevent" us from dialing.......ROFLMAO... little did they know we still could dial!!... just by clicking the thingies were you hang up for the numbers you wanted to dial

example: number 12345

one click pause two clicks pause three clicks pause...and so on AND you get the actual number you "dialed"....

[Twisterdog]

In cleaning out my dad's basement, I found our old tan one that was on the wall when I was growing up.

On the little round plate in the middle of dial, it still had our phone number ... but instead of the first two numbers it had EM. My older sister said this stood for "empire".

[jennielynn1970]

On the little round plate in the middle of dial, it still had our phone number ... but instead of the first two numbers it had EM. My older sister said this stood for "empire".

Mine has the letters as well, UN (was for university think it was).