rotary telephones?

[elizabethann]

My parents actually had a rotary phone until about 10 years ago. AND they were renting it!!! Can you believe it? They finally had to get with the times when the bright yellow rotary phone (in their pink kitchen) kicked the bucket. I just bought my Mom a cordless one 5 years ago. That confused her big time. And I had to buy her an answering machine too. Double confusion!

I bought an old black rotary phone at a yard sale years ago just for decoration. It's in my Mom's attic right now. But it's wicked heavy.



I also remember when phone numbers were 5 digits long.

[Laura's Babies]

I REMEMBER (standing up and waving my hands). My generation grew up with those. Right now I have a wall phone that is one of the very first push button phones made and I LOVE it. It rings so loud though that it scares the holy wits out of my kitties when it rings and they all take off running in different directions. There are just some conversations that I do not want on a cordless phone for anyone to overhear and the newer phones are to light to stay put when you have to do a long reach for something.

[jenluckenbach]

I DO! I DO!

I also remember party lines (even though we did not have one, my cousins did).

[prechrswife]

Funny story--There is a rotary phone in the Sunday School officers' office at our church that is still in use. There were 2 girls (about 3rd grade age) who needed to call home from the church on a Wednesday night. The teacher sent them to the SS office to use the phone. They came back to the teacher with a very funny look on their faces--they had NO IDEA how to use the rotary phone!

[Karen]

Almost every town around my parents' house got touch-tone service before we did. So my parents' house had a rotary phone for my whole childhood, and there's still a couple in this house, but they're unplugged.

[lizbud]

I remember rotary phones and party lines. I even remember when
phone numbers didn't have prefixes. Our childhood number was 4 digits.

[davidpizzica]

This is going back a ways. Remember when there were telephone exchanges instead of all numbers? Like Churchill 2 xxxx?