How many people can tell me what this is?
By flpoolbum
@flpoolbum (2978)
United States
August 14, 2018 12:23am CST
An on-line selling site, LetGo's automated labeling system listed a rotary dial wall phone as a "White & Grey Electronic device". Apparently, there isn't some one to correct errors like that or people don't know what a telephone looks like. You don't need to go to a museum or a history book, even if you never seen one in use, you probably seen one watching TV shows or movies. Being a "Baby Boomer", we used to use these in our houses.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
14 Aug 18
we still have a telephone and i bounce between calling it a landline and telephone. i agree it's possible to see them in movies, commercials, videos, etc.
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@flpoolbum (2978)
• United States
14 Aug 18
@hereandthere ~At the moment, I don't have a landline, just a cellphone. I miss having a landline because I have some cool phones, like my Darth Vader, R2D2 and Snoopy "Joe Cool" phones.
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@flpoolbum (2978)
• United States
14 Aug 18
@hereandthere ~As a matter of fact, there is a green wall phone just like that in the living room of the main characters in the U.S. sitcom, "2 Broke Girls".
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
14 Aug 18
@flpoolbum it still has its uses here. however, i don't like that it's now interconnected - the internet, landline and cable. in the past, you can still use the telephone even when there's a blackout.
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@flpoolbum (2978)
• United States
19 Aug 18
@yoalldudes ~It is an old fashioned telephone. We had one when I was a kid.
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@flpoolbum (2978)
• United States
19 Aug 18
@yoalldudes ~I'm old, too. Look at all of the wonderful stuff that has been developed. My Mom was born in 1923. Her Dad had a dairy farm and they had the only phone in town. It was one of those brown wooden wall phones with the mouthpiece attached to the base and a corded ear piece. She was amazed at everything that has come out, including one of those electronic signs on the expressways. It advises drivers of accidents that are ahead in real time.
@yoalldudes (35040)
• Philippines
19 Aug 18
@flpoolbum Of course I'm right because I'm old lol
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
19 Aug 18
It is interesting that someone would say something like this. It is interesting how very few even have land lines in their homes anymore, and would own a phone. I remember the dial ones where you had to dial someone's number. Many times even though calling long distance was very expensive, many times I long for those easier days again
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@flpoolbum (2978)
• United States
19 Aug 18
@KrauseHome ~I remember, long distance was so expensive that we only used it for emergences. We also had to rent phones from Ma Bell. If you didn't pay extra for a private line, you had to have a party line. We had the rotary dials and the very last one was "0" for "Operator".
@flpoolbum (2978)
• United States
18 Aug 18
@sol_cee ~Yes, they still exist. My brother-in-law kept using his for a long time after touch tone phones came out. We agree that we shouldn't have to pay extra for touch tone service and at the time it was an extra charge.
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@flpoolbum (2978)
• United States
14 Aug 18
@aureliah ~I'm wondering why the person who is selling the phone didn't correct it. Those are considered antiques now. Even if the seller didn't know, it would have said owed by "Bell Telephone Company" on the back.
Back in those days, Bell owed all of the telephones, you had to rent the phones from the phone company. That was before they had modular plugs.
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@aureliah (24319)
• Kenya
18 Aug 18
@flpoolbum I think one should be more careful with what they sell
@scarlet_woman (23465)
• United States
14 Aug 18
our old one's probably still in the basement..
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