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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
Toccoa, Georgia
March 19, 2018 4:52pm CST
The old fashioned rotary phone, how phones use to be before the dawn of touch tone phones. Your finger had to twirl the phone number , each number at a time and it was all set in pulse style (which would not work for all this touch tone phone menus we have to do today, like "punch 1 for this or punch 2 for that")
My parents have newer phones but they still do have their black rotary phone sitting in their Den that has been there since the 70s. They still use it on occasion.
This is my old Rotary Dial Telephone that I bought for $12 or so at a local antique shop.
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@xFiacre (13035)
• Ireland
19 Mar 18
@leapea2417 Young folk don’t understand why I still use the verb dial when I talk about phone calls and I have to explain this rotary thing and they look at me as if I’m mad. They don’t understand ‘Dial M for Murder’
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Mar 18
Yes, I still use the word "dial" too. 
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Mar 18
@Luap1050 LOL, I still say "Tape" too.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
19 Mar 18
I remember the rotary dial. What I remember most about it was living in the 70's when there were party lines. It was fun to eavesdrop on the neighbor's conversations. :-D
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
20 Mar 18
My parents paid extra to have the party line removed.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Mar 18
Oh yes, I remember the party lines.
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
19 Mar 18
Oh Yes...I remember them very much as there used be no redial facility and after dialing the number if we fail to get through the connection we had to redial all again! but then that was a altogether a different enjoyment I used to have with that phones which were very loud too! Thanks!
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
20 Mar 18
That thing is " bang proof" when you are angry at the person on the other line, ouch! that was very painful to the ear
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@Courtlynn (67085)
• United States
19 Mar 18
My grandmother had about 20 rotary phones at once. And every month or so she'd switch them out. . I use to sit there twirling it while watching tv.
. I use to sit there twirling it while watching tv.2 people like this
@Courtlynn (67085)
• United States
20 Mar 18
@shaggin she had white, black, brown, yellow and pink.. as shes always been a bright colored woman.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
20 Mar 18
Yes, for years we had a land line and just in the past month, we got rid of it and are only using our cell phones.
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@allen0187 (58582)
• Philippines
20 Mar 18
Used to have this as my maternal grandfather worked with the local phone company. Right now, we have a landline phone has buttons instead of the rotary one.
It would be nice to have a rotary phone that is still functioning.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
20 Mar 18
our first telephone was like that. it even had its own carved wooden stand with a glass top and a mirror hanging above. it's amazing that your parents old phone is still working.
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@Metsrock69 (3582)
• United States
19 Mar 18
I remember those things. I used them when I was younger. My grandmother had one until she passed away in 2007.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Mar 18
The one my parents still use, looks like the one in the video.
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@shaggin (72141)
• United States
20 Mar 18
Those old rotary dial phones were so loud when they rang it startled me terribly. There was a pink on in the bedroom when I moved in (that was my grandmothers). The first time it rang in the night I got rid of it lol.
