Murrmurr
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These young ladies are absolutely awed by a landline phone, because "OMG! It did it! It actually did it!"
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carouselsilver
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- Eastern PA
Oh, now I really feel old!
carouselsilver
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- Eastern PA
I remember moving into a new place about three years ago and the two young men helping us spotted my landline phone. He gawked, then said "man, I only ever saw one of those in old movies!"
hollydolly
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yes I remember seeing that or similar a while ago.. made me Laugh..
IKE
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- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
We've got a couple of flip phones to carry for emergencies when we go out but we still use our landline as our primary contact number and have a phone like the one in the video hanging on the wall in the kitchen.
Nathan
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Lol, if they thought that was amazing they would absolutely love using one of these:
Mizmo
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- Ontario, Canada
I still have my land line and remember the days when we had to share a line with another party.
Can you imagine what these kids would think of that these days
I have a cell phone but use only for calls when I go out and texts.
Can you imagine what these kids would think of that these days
I have a cell phone but use only for calls when I go out and texts.
Murrmurr
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- Sacramento, California
I did a poster on an old site, for the twenty somethings that were touting their smart phones
horseless carriage
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We still have the phone issued to us at our first address after we got married, back in 1968. It still works too.
Murrmurr
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My little foster son loved playing with my old rotary-dial phone when he was a tot.
Murrmurr
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- Sacramento, California
I finally tossed mine out, along with 2 cordless phones and the charging stands....plus at least 100ft of coaxial cable, probably 200ft of old data wire for PCs and phones, a collection of cable splitters, and a couple of old digital cameras...with the cases!
Nathan
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- High Desert- Calif.
I had a rotary phone that I was paying $1/mo. rent for until about 1991. I turned it in, and picked up a push button phone with a clear housing for $18. Like this one:
The kids loved it, I put a long cord on it so they could go down the hall with it and talk in private.
Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
Good Lord, Nathan, I remember we all rushed out to get one of these. Looked like a Fisher-Price toy.
When I was growing up the phone we had was hard wired, you could not unplug it. It did not have a dial, you picked it up and told the operator the number that you wanted. My grandmothers number was "Baldwin 581J".
We still have a land line and it is far easier to use than the smartphone. Smartphone is mostly for weather forecast and messaging the kids who live in the furthest corner of the country.
We still have a land line and it is far easier to use than the smartphone. Smartphone is mostly for weather forecast and messaging the kids who live in the furthest corner of the country.
Before hand held phones, we had the house wired so that there was a phone in 3 rooms. In the movie "Shampoo", Goldie Hawn's character was walking around her house talking on her land line phone that had a really long phone cord. And we thought we were so modern.
I remember my grandmother listening in on the conversations of others on her "party line". Each one had their on special ring.
I remember my grandmother listening in on the conversations of others on her "party line". Each one had their on special ring.
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Jules
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Did she live in Toronto. When we lived there our number was BAldwin 5 and 4 digits. Probably Baldwin was the standard terminology for BA numbers.
fuzzybuddy
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- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
Our first phone # was 7321. When it went to 4-7321, everybody was upset. How were you supposed to remember all those digits?
Raddragn
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- Washington State
I had a landline until about 15 or 20 years ago in addition to my cell phone. They doubled the monthly bill from 23.00 to 45+. At that point I DC'd the land line and went totally Cell.
She lived in Baldwin Long Island NY
Jules
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I know the feeling. We went to 7 digits from 5.