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Posted on 07/27/2013 1:00:37 PM PDT by Dallas59
TW3-2931 or Kofax7-3779, what was an area code? The first from 1962 the second 1966. I know, we are dating ourselves.
We bought a house built in 1952 from the folks that were the original owners. In the garage they left a black General Telephone rotary dial desk top.
I confirted the connection line to the new style so I could plug it into the wall socket. We could receive calls but couldn’t dial out due to the tone system.
It is a real conversation piece. We had to turn the ringer off because even on it’s lowest setting it would scare the crap out of you when someone called.
And when you had to go through a switchboard operator (whose name was always Sarah)?
We had a phone exactly like that one when I went off to college in the ‘80s. Bakelite exterior, metal dial, cloth-covered cord. Darn thing weighed several pounds and would probably be classified as a deadly weapon.
I was born in 1966 so when I was a kid, my tiny Virginia town still had the alpha-numeric dial system. The exchange was 946 (listed sometimes as VI 6) and we only had to dial five digits to call locally; so somebody in town would just call 6-5464 to call us. This actually worked until the mid-70s. And there was no 911, in fact they didn’t have a true E911 system until the early ‘90s.
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Although I did live in New York City in the 1960s, I don't recall the phone number.
-PJ
Laz...are you Batman?
Batman?
No... but they call him The Streak!
And for us girls who wanted to preserve our manicures...used the end of a pencil/pen to dial.
“TW3-2931 or Kofax7-3779, what was an area code? The first from 1962 the second 1966. I know, we are dating ourselves.”
I’m so old, our phone number was three.
Did you dial all but the last number and then dial the last number up to the finger stop before letting it go at the right time? I would do that if they were having a contest and you had to listen for a certain signal from the radio station and be the first to dial in. Soon the radio stations got wise and made it be the 2nd, third, or 10th caller to prevent this.
My two young granddaughters were visiting one day, and my husband had bought an old rotary at a yard sale. He asked them to call a phone number he had given them. They looked at the phone for a minute and then my younger granddaughter stuck her fingers in the finger holes and started pushing the numbers as if there were push buttons attached. We got a big kick out of that.
I had one of those. Mine was a light teal color and the dial lit up. I loved that phone.
Don’t you have a fourth phone, for sexting? :)
I have no need for that.
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