Do you remember how to use your new dial phone?

I remember!

When I started working some of the phones that were used for incoming calls only had these locks on the dial to prevent employees from calling family and friends.

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Oh yes indeed I remember well...I collect Vintage phones.. so I have plenty here to practice on if ever I was to forget.. :D
 

Oh sure I remember. That dial tone of hers was pretty abrasive, I think ours was smoother. I recall we had a 2-party line, but some people had up to 4! We didn't have it long.
 
RadishRose said:
Remember Lily Tomlin as Ernestine the telephone operator?
Do you remember Operators and Information?

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I worked on a old "cord board" like that (but larger) when I was 17. I was the regular operator's lunchtime relief and I prayed and prayed hard that there wouldn't be many calls during that hour. It was such a hassle to work one of those.
 
locked phones remember them well when i was living in canada '' especially at my sis house with her daughters 'it was their punishment lol''happy days '''
 
Aunt Bea said:
I remember!

When I started working some of the phones that were used for incoming calls only had these locks on the dial to prevent employees from calling family and friends.

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Ive never seen these before. I suppose they needed some way of preventing employees from phone thief.

RadishRose said:
Remember Lily Tomlin as Ernestine the telephone operator?
Do you remember Operators and Information?

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She was hilarious.

SeaBreeze said:
Lol Hoot, I remember giving a boy in high school that number when he was hounding me for my telephone number. My family didn't get a phone until I was in my teens, and I couldn't use it at first without my mother's permission.
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Hahaha Seabreeze. You sly one you. :laugh:

jujube said:
We had a four-party line for a while. It wasn't too bad unless one of the "parties" liked to talk a lot and then you couldn't use your phone. We had one old lady who liked to listen to everyone's conversations. You could hear her breathing and my dad would say, "Mrs. _______, hang up!" She'd always say, "I AM NOT LISTENING TO YOUR CALL!!!!"
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Haha JuJube! My best friend had one of those party lines and they had one of those lady’s also. She was nosey as ever. At times if someone was one the phone for hours you just couldn’t use it. My friend has 4 brothers and sisters and they’d just get on the phone and say Mrs. so & so , we need to use the phone now; could you get off. It used to crack me up all the time. :lofl:
 
All of the oak wall phones were gone by the time I came along but a few of the folks that lived way out in the country still had these 1930ish rotary dial phones with an oak ringer box that was usually mounted in an out of the way location close to the telephone.

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I remember those phones. When I was a teen and got a new 45 record I would set up my little record player and play the song over the phone to my girlfriends. That worked well until the lady down the street who was on our party line complained to my Mother. That was the end of my disk jockey job.
 
Beth Ward said:
i was in heaven when my Father brought home a new dial phone and a TV. I was in heaven. Every Monday night at 8 pm, it
was “I Love Lucy” time. I had a crush on Ricky Ricardo.
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Beth you just brought back a memory to me. I loved watching the I Love Lucy show. The only problem was that my bedtime was 8:15 pm. I would try to stall but my Mom was stern. I never got to watch the entire show. My Dad would try to help me ,but Mom always won that argument.
 
When I grew up we had a rotary phone like everybody else, but I remember when the "push button" phones started showing up, man, was that high tech!! And then there were some where the numbers lit up, now that was cool!
 
jujube said:
I worked on a old "cord board" like that (but larger) when I was 17. I was the regular operator's lunchtime relief and I prayed and prayed hard that there wouldn't be many calls during that hour. It was such a hassle to work one of those.
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I also worked one of those. Mine was much larger, too. I had little colored clothespins to mark which line was waiting for which extension. It was indeed a hassle! And you really had to pay attention to what you were doing.
 
I remember when we bought an extra long flexible cord that would go from one room to the next. The kids loved it because it would give them a little privacy. If I remember correctly, it would get all wound up after awhile.
 
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