Do you remember how to use your new dial phone?

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

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"Is this the party to whom I am speaking?"
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LOL, I had the 8 track of her with the exact image of what you put up,same dress and blouse.
'One ringgy Dinggy .........." I'll unplug you a six pack at a time" .I think she was talking to Pepsi, not sure.
 

I remember calling the time, in Atlanta it was Mareitta 5-8550 or aka 755-8550. I'm almost sure that was the number.

Also all the girls wanted a Princess Phone when they came out.
 
Marie5656 said:
And paying for long distance calls.
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The "trick", upon arriving safely back at college, was to place a person-to-person call to our parents asking for a pre-arranged fictitious individual. They would reply that the person wasn't there (so there was no charge) but they'd know that we'd arrived back safely.
 
I remember when dialing local phones in my small home town, the numbers went from "7321" to "4-7321". People were all bent out of shape trying to remember all those 5 digits.The calls inside my town were non-toll calls. You could talk for as long as you wanted without a change in your bill. Making a toll call was a big deal. You kept looking at your watch so you wouldn't run up a huge bill.
Of course that was nothing compared when they came out with pastel colored phones. But you had to pay extra for them.
 
Hong Kong was a great place all shops had black phones which were free for any customer to use at any time during opening hrs! - great social foresight?
 
There are still 100,000 pay phones in America. In 1999, you could still plunk a coin into one at 2 million phone booths in the United States. Only 5% of those are left today. ... The demise of pay phones is an unsurprising result of cell phones in 95% of Americans' pocket, according to Pew Research.Mar 19, 2018.
 
I remember out first phone number when I was a kid. It was Fulton-9-7263.I remember when I had to give my number to my teacher and when I did I Told her she just had to dial the FU and then the numbers. I got really embarrassed when she laughed when I said FU. I also remember Party lines. When my brother was in the Army and living on Base me,my sister and my cousin Jimmy would go to the payphone. My cousin would ask the operator to call Circle 222 and another one,then we would hang up and run away laughing that we had pranked the operator.Oh they were the good OLD days.
 
Tommy said:
The "trick", upon arriving safely back at college, was to place a person-to-person call to our parents asking for a pre-arranged fictitious individual. They would reply that the person wasn't there (so there was no charge) but they'd know that we'd arrived back safely.
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Yup, I remember this. It worked well.
 

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