A rotary dial phone

[cassiesmom]

We used one that was built in the 80's when we first moved here before we managed to get a touch tone phone. The ringer on that thing makes me jump out of my skin every time it rings lol.

Fyrewolf36, my mom and dad have a phone with a ringer like that! Every time I'm there, and the phone rings, I jump because it's so incredibly LOUD.

[Catlady711]

I don't remember the days of having letters in the phone numbers but my mom does. I can remember only 5 digit phone numbers though. My grandma used to work at the switchboard for the telephone company many years ago, I mean a real switchboard with the pegs and holes for connecting calls. lol

We used to have an 8-track player, but it died and we could not find anyone around here that could fix it, so we sold it at a garage sale with the tapes we had. I still miss that thing.

I still have a ton of 33 1/3 and 45 records. My cousin keeps calling them black funny looking cd's. ROFL

I have a ton of cassette tapes also. The car dealer thought I was nuts when I bought my last car. It came with a cd player in it. When I asked if they had a cd/tape combo player available he said no it was tape or cd only. I told them to take the cd player out and put a tape player in. He kept arguing with me saying 'you know that's a downgrade don't you?'. Sheesh most of my music was on tapes, why spend more money to buy everything again on cd's, it's easier to just downgrade the car stereo. lol

We do have mp3's and cd's though so we're not toally 'retro' lol.