Describe The Phone In Your Home When You Were A Kid

[Aunt Marg]

Here is the style we had, same colour, too. Was wired right into the wall, and conveniently located within earshot of the kitchen table, so no privacy was afforded to anyone carrying on a conversation.

 

[Lizzie00]

Just like Aunt Bea’s rotary and also with a party line.
I can hardly remember what i had for dinner last night but do recall that childhood phone number.

 

[JaniceM]

I remember that the "updated" phone we got after the black rotary was a turquoise wall phone for the den (that was a new addition to our house.) It was still a rotary dial, though.

The one in our house was like this ^ only beige.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I used to view the table top versions as sophisticated... formal.

 

[Lewkat]

We had a black phone on the hall table. No dial, just an operator. That lasted until I was about 12, then we had one on the wall in the kitchen, one in the den and one in the living room. All the same number. After I got out of college, I had my own princess phone. Now I no longer own a landline phone.

 

[Ken N Tx]

Black dial type

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I remember a black, rotary phone. It had a kind of like a black cardboardy cord. It was a party line. I remember the phone number, it was "321". Then the phone compay got a lot more customers, because now you had to dial "4-7321". OMG, how was anybody supposed to remember all those numbers?????? Then we got a black rotary wall phone.
Strange I can remember the phones and the phone numbers when I lived at home, but I can't remember anything of the phones when I was on my own. I know I had one????????????

I do remember getting on a cleaning kick, and my phone was all cruddy. So, I took the rotary phone off the receiver, and started cleaning the dial, starting at "0", and going around the dial. Then I could hear a foreign voice say "hello, hello". I hung up. Next month I had a bill for a phone call to either Libya, or Liberia ( I forget which). the number was like 0-1-2-4 -3-5-6-6-7-8-9.

 

[muffin]

We never had a phone when I was growing up ,I used to use a phone box in my teenage years.