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[mountain_hiker]

22 Awesome Rotary Phones: Beautiful Relics of a Bygone Era

Toshiba's Model 500 View Phone, being tested at the company's Tokyo headquarters, 1968.

Comments

[rainbow_goddess]

I actually did fairly well winning radio station contests on a rotary phone. I'd dial all the numbers but one, and then when I heard them announce "The first caller will win X" I'd release the dial and dial the final number.

Of course, I also won a lot of radio contests just from having a massive amount of trivial knowledge in my head.

[lord_cellytron]

When we moved in to my house in 2004, the phone in my room was a pastel turquoise rotary phone. I kept it for several years.

[redqueenofevil]

In my mom's house, tucked away somewhere lies my grandfather's old rotary phone that he bought in the 1940s. The receiver alone could knock out someone. Seriously heavy duty. I hope to have it someday, and if we are living in an older house, maybe hook it up for kicks.

Actually, the phone looked a lot like the m33 phone in the third picture on the linked page.

[piroshki]

I'd be dating myself if I admitted my first phone had a dial, but was on a party-line, so I won't say that's how it was.

[mountain_hiker]

I remember party lines!

[randomdreams]

We had a party line in Leadville until the 1990's. (And didn't even get phone service until the early 1980's.)