My phone when I was a kid.

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  • liftsiron
    Administrator
    • Nov 2003
    • 18439

    My phone when I was a kid.

    My childhood phone number was 987. No shit when I was a kid you would pick up the phone and an operator would say number please, just like Mayberry. My friend's family owned a grocery store where he worked his number at the store was 1. I was in my early teens before my dial phones were introduced in my area. My phone number was still 987.
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  • liftsiron
    Administrator
    • Nov 2003
    • 18439

    #2
    Originally posted by AlphaMale
    LMAO...that makes me picture that old tv show Green Acres where they lived on a farm and had to go out to the telephone pole and crank the phone up to dial the operator.
    I think the farmer guy had to climb to the top of the telephone pole to get to the phone.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4PvFw5lyDJQ
    I remember that show. Arnold the little pig was my favorite.
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    • Dakota
      VET
      • Feb 2017
      • 1991

      #3
      I can beat that. I am so old that we didn't have a phone when I was a kid. No indoor plumbing either.
      The older I get the better I used to be.

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      • Friggemall

        #4
        My grandparents had an outhouse as the only bathroom. We lived 6 houses away and had one. Town only had about 50 people. We had the party line phone and always carefully lifted the reciever to listen in on everyone's conversations.

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        • Kluso
          Vet
          • Dec 2016
          • 869

          #5
          I thought I was old cause when I was a kid when we didn’t dial area codes unless it was different. Kids these days don’t even know what an area code is. Lol. We had the kitchen phone with the 30ft cord so u could take it in the living room for privacy. Your a dinosaur Lifts! Lol

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          • Beef Newton
            VET
            • Nov 2018
            • 428

            #6
            Holy shit, a Kluso sighting.

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            • Glycomann

              #7
              I used these when I was 4. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tr86UoPVUv...-telephone.jpg

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              • Deacon
                Vet
                • Jan 2005
                • 3686

                #8
                Originally posted by AlphaMale
                was it one of those coiled phone cords?
                We used to have the old rotary dial phone on our kitchen wall with one of those super long cords but with all the knots and tangles, it only stretched about ten feet
                same here and when you dialed it took 4 minutes for it to get back so you could dial again
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                • Dakota
                  VET
                  • Feb 2017
                  • 1991

                  #9
                  There is a youtube video that is asking millennials to demonstrate how to use a rotary phone that is hilarious. They are stymied.

                  The older I get the better I used to be.

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                  • Kluso
                    Vet
                    • Dec 2016
                    • 869

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Beef Newton
                    Holy shit, a Kluso sighting.
                    Hey Beef! Been awhile!

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                    • Kluso
                      Vet
                      • Dec 2016
                      • 869

                      #11
                      Originally posted by AlphaMale
                      was it one of those coiled phone cords?
                      We used to have the old rotary dial phone on our kitchen wall with one of those super long cords but with all the knots and tangles, it only stretched about ten feet
                      Yes! Exactly! Lol. But wasn’t rotary. I do remember those as well. Like in the principles office. Lol

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                      • MindlessWork
                        Moderator
                        • Aug 2011
                        • 1174

                        #12
                        I remember when I was a little kid my grandma had what is known as a "party line" which is a phone line shared by multiple households (she lived in a 3 family house). It was something...
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                        • mrhtbd
                          Registered User
                          • Apr 2015
                          • 930

                          #13
                          Back in the day I could remember 30 phone numbers in my head. I think the air/sea/land was cleaner then. Our phone number from 1968 was 3934.

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