The 1980s are on the line. Who might you have talked to on a phone like this that’s no longer around
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The 1980s are on the line. Who might you have talked to on a phone like this that’s no longer around
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I grew up with a rotary phone. These pushbutton phones were considered high tech.
Who did I call? Everyone.
Burt Reynolds. He fucking slaps
My Mom.
Everyone. And before that the rotary. If the number you wanted had too many high numbers like 7 8 9 or 0 you got impatient waiting for the dial. 😂 And sometimes you’d get your fingers fumbled in the dial. My aunt still has hers. I hadn’t been in her house since I was a kid, and visited a few years ago and was 😯 when I saw that familiar relic.
In the 80s we had northern telecom rotary phone that could break your foot if it fell, and it did fall on mine. When i grew older i had my own line so i talked to all my friends and whoever. Having your own number was first sign of independance for a kid. Got touchtone eventually (late 80s i think or early 90s). I still have that number.
I miss slamming the phone
My mom and my grandparents. My best friend.
And we didn’t have a fancy touch tone phone. We had rotary,
Everyone, and prank calls without having caller ID was the best!
My church had a phone like that in the overflow room, and when we were 9 or 10 my friend and i used to try to find sex hotlines by spelling rude words until we found something, and we’d listen to the answering messages and laugh.
She’s dead now, died when she was only 32. I would have talked to her on that phone, if I could.
My grandma.
Quick call popcorn
Freddy Krueger via his 900 number.
We had a rotary phone, but in the early ’60s we were part of a pilot program that got to try out a push-button phone. I think we had it for about a month, and we all LOVED it, even though it didn’t actually make the connection any faster than a rotary (you could hear the little clicks after you punched in a number, same as a rotary).
Anyway, we were 15-minute famous in our neighborhood while we had that telecom marvel.
Edit: My big sister worked for Southern New England Telephone at the time, maybe that’s why we got picked to try it out.
Matlock, that theme song was spooky good.
Grandparents had a rotary phone on a party line in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. It had a different ring for each household – one ring it was for them, two rings it was for their neighbour, and so on. And you could listen in on your neighbours conversations. Totally foreign today…
Who had a party line?
Dad
411
You mean the ones you had to rent from AT&T because you weren’t allowed to own them?
My in laws still have a working rotary phone. It’s awesome