Absolutely. I used my fingers to preposition numbers so that I could dial a number in the dark. I remember the distinctive sound on the line. Incidentally, in English call boxes, you could tap out the number with the receiver craddle and get free long distance calls. They had to change all public phones in the country when they realised what we vandals had found out! Here, we resisted getting touch tone phones as long as possible and we were furious at the Bell for charging us for touch tone service, which we had been forced to adopt. We don't have land lines at home at all anymore.
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I do actually remember those. We had one when I was a kid. You brought back a few memories for me!
I do! I remember playing with my grandfather's phone as I love hearing the whirl--ing sound of it when it turns :)
Absolutely! I actually had one of these in high school in the 90s.
My Grandma had a phone like this... I think I enjoyed the ch, ch, chhhhh sound...lol
By the way, love the new blog design : ) Especially the textural background.
Absolutely. I used my fingers to preposition numbers so that I could dial a number in the dark. I remember the distinctive sound on the line. Incidentally, in English call boxes, you could tap out the number with the receiver craddle and get free long distance calls. They had to change all public phones in the country when they realised what we vandals had found out! Here, we resisted getting touch tone phones as long as possible and we were furious at the Bell for charging us for touch tone service, which we had been forced to adopt. We don't have land lines at home at all anymore.
Yep...One ringy dingy...
Ha! I swear my grandparents kept their rotary phone as long as they did to disuade my sister & I from using it so often :-)
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