rotary telephones?

**jenluckenbach** · 03-18-2006, 03:44 PM

I DO! I DO!

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

**prechrswife** · 03-18-2006, 04:03 PM

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** · 03-18-2006, 04:07 PM

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** · 03-18-2006, 04:23 PM

I remember rotary phones and party lines.

I even remember when
phone numbers didn't have prefixes. Our childhood number was 4 digits.

**davidpizzica** · 03-18-2006, 04:31 PM

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

**moosmom** · 03-18-2006, 04:37 PM

Remember when there were telephone exchanges instead of all numbers? Like Churchill 2 xxxx?

Boy does THAT bring back memories. But how many of you can say you actually remember your phone number when you were a kid???

Mine was 529-5408. My best friend's was 529-4275!!! See?? My mind is not such a terrible thing afterall!!

Any of you remember pay phone booths??? When a phone call was just a nickle. Then it went up to a dime. Now it's 50 cents!!!

**davidpizzica** · 03-18-2006, 04:44 PM

I can, Donna. Growing up our number was Churchill 2- 2870. Then it became 242-2870. I even remember my dad's number from whem he had his store! (781-6424). Pretty good, huh?