Not really car related but it is from the right era and american made :grin: I'm looking for an old rotary dial phone to use in the house. I'm sure some of you guys have some laying out in the barn or garage collecting dust. If someone has one at a decent price shoot me a price and some pics. Girlfriend likes the super fancy ornate pedestal style, while I'm perfectly fine with the old desktop GE type phones.
I remember being a kid and having one in the basement (I'm only 26). We must have gone through about 3 of 'em. Every time it stormed the phone ended up dead . . . :laugh: TTT- free bump.
back in the day you didnt own your phone, you rented it from the phone company. There are a ton of Western Electric rotary phones on Ebay. Most are dirt cheap too.
I have a wall mount one (still in use not selling) - no battery to go dead, works when the power is out - problem is the hydro company wants you to enter your phone number (and the rotary doesn't have the tones) for outage updates - having a old push button for that is good too.
I actually did laugh out loud- our avocado electric stove went to the first free dump day we had here after we moved to our new (to us) house, in 2002. Shades of 1968... But back in the early '60s, all you could get was black, and a PARTY line, to boot. I guess the question I have to ask is if the pulse style electronics are still supported. Even Morse Code has been declared obsolete for communication systems.
I have one,not for sale.:laugh: USAF issue dont know what office my dad stole it from....big,bulcky,black & ugly,i use it to call the power company also when i lose service.My neighbors drive over to use it:laugh:
I should take a pic of our mother-in-law apartment....green square tub,toilet,sink right out of a 60's Frank Sinatra movie:beer
I just tried my 1939 Western Electric desk phone. The rotary works like a charm on my line. I made an outbound call and I took an inbound call. Its got a great ring to it. I unplugged it years ago because every time it rang, it scared the crap out of the cat. That was always good for a chuckle
My parents house had a pink bathroom with black accent tiles. They were the old school 6x6 pink tiles on the walls. The floor were those tiny pink tiles. God, it was horrible The most common desk phone was the Western Electric model 500.
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We still a baby blue bathroom suite - Simpson-Sears Brand (late 60's) Guess it was the talk of the town back in the day, We were surprised how people asked or commented about it when we first moved in. The wife wanted gone at first ,along with the red and black shag carpet (Like that in super Van) bath is still there -carpet got replaced with hard wood (except for on basement stairway which also has wrought iron rail) and the wife wants 60's/70's style furniture.
to keep us in the car realm - check out this Riv http://boattail-riviera-by-buick.co...tion=vinsearch&doSearch=Sort/Search&q=sinatra Imported into Australia in early 1974 and converted to right hand drive - used later that year by Frank Sinatra for his infamous 1974 tour of Australia there's another 72 originally owned by Lucie Arnez (Lucy Ball/Dezi Arnez' Daughter) currently on auction
We love our antique phones. They are restored and work beautifully! I have a Candlestick and ringer box on my desk at work that also works great. Some folks really flip out when they see these phones and find out they work and we use them!
