Pickles by Brian Crane for July 27, 2020

I still have a rotary dial phone. I call it a gangster phone i think the proper term is candlestick phone.

Have a very heavy phone(age?) that I am not sure would work on the new line system but it is a nice piece on the phone stand, both of which came with the house.

I remember those old rotary phones quite well. We used to have one that was on a “party” line and often times you could hear the neighbors talking away on it when you picked the handset up to make a call. I still use the old landline system here and I still don’t own a cell phone. Never have found a need for one.

I hardly remember seeing a rotary phone at my grandparents’ house; I live in Washington state and they lived (yes, they passed on) in Arizona and it was rare occasions for visits in person.

We had a rotary phone when I was a kid in Pittsburgh. I still remember the phone number; that was back before the numbers WERE all numbers, so we had an ‘exchange’ that started out as EM… Meanwhile, I still have a landline. It’s the only thing that works after a hurricane, when all the cell towers are down…

Perfect for crank calls (not that I did that) before call display.

I grew up with a rotary dial phone. Can’t say that I miss them.

They were around when I first became a secretary. In a busy office, your finger got sore!

What was nice about those old phones you could drop the hand set and it did not break !

Not me. Glad to be rid of it.

Nice history lesson for Nelson … and Roscoe ;-)

How nice of you to be considerate of Opal’s feelings…especially after the last couple of weeks she’s had!

I am just glad that I do not have to listen to that dialup noise whenever I connect to the Internet anymore.

Oh, for the days of easy prank calls! I’m getting verklempt!

Not many young people know what a rotary phone looks like!

I used to volunteer as the Ward Clerk at our church, we had a small rotary phone on the desk, and if you try to dial it with one hand if would move all over the desk!

I still have a rotary dial phone. But now there are so many places I can’t call because they all want me to press a button! Used ta be, if you stayed on the line long enough it would go through to a real person. Not anymore.

My doctor asked me why I never phone him back. I told him I do, but nobody answers.

There is probably an app for that sound.

I like using our rotary phone – the heft of the receiver, the tactile feedback while dialing, being able to slam down the receiver to hang up on telemarketers…

Until I was at least in junior high school, we had to go through a operator. When we got our first dial phone, we thought we were in tech heaven.

Nobody mentioned Roscoe is back…Our 1st phone had no dial, we talked to an operator…

I’ve mentioned my 1964 black rotary dial phone many times before – I can’t wait to get my new home set up and put that back in service.

Heavy, heavy weight (so much so that a Bell phone was the murder weapon in an episode of “Columbo”), and that ringer is the LOUDEST one I’ve heard… best of all, it will confuse the younger members of the family once again… :-P

Loved my rotary! I want it back! I’ll never ever give up my two landlines …..EVER!

I always found waiting for the dial to rotate rather annoying.

When I was a youngster, my parents would always make sure I had a dime (a 10-cent coin, for those of you who don’t remember) when I left the house so I could call home from a rotary pay-phone if necessary. That was a long, long time ago. . . .

With cordless or cell phones you can’t have the satisfaction of slamming the receiver down to hang up on an annoying caller!

My mom had a rotary dial phone until quit and then carrier did replace with button dial. My sister/husband visited a niece/boyfriend house with family, in this house had a crank phone, one of the great niece asked my sister if she knew of those crank phones, sister thought about aging her, then she told her husband and friends and they cracked up laughing, that niece thought her Aunt knew of those crank phones. Very funny.

And don’t forget!!! You could use them as a weapon!! Many a black and white movie was made where the whole phone was used to bash someone over the head… the cut out handle under the handset made it possible… of course today hitting someone with a cell phone would just barely leave a ‘hickie’

Oh and there use to be a rotary phone dialing app , not sure if its still available.

I miss the hanging up with a bang to the deserved.

As the son of an electronics professor, I got to see lots of technology. Could solder at age 8. New devices were really advanced when they included a telephone dial.

Yes. The phone in the movie “Dial M for Murder” is definitely nostalgic!

I got a rotary phone for the house when the kids were small. They thought it was cool and fun. I figured, if the power goes out our cordless phones would be useless, but the rotary would work fine. (before cell phones, still with land line.) And actually, it has come in handy a few times over the years.

Heaven help you if the telephone number had a lot of high numbers – it took forever to dial. But I did like being able to slam the receiver down.

I agree with her, but my brother still uses the dial phone we grew up with. I tried it not too long ago and it required a lot more effort than I remembered.

I think there’s an app to create a rotary dial for your smart phone

I put a rotary phone in my garage.. left it there when we moved 20 years ago and still.. regret it.

These two 17 year old boys could not figure out how to use one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OADXNGnJok

I always thought our old black bakelite rotary dial phone we had when I was a kid, was the first portable phone. It sat on a special phone chair/stand in the Dining Room of our little Cape Cod-style house in Ct. What made it portable was an extremely long phone cord that enabled you to carry that the phone anywhere around the house – upstairs, downstairs, the basement, or the back porch.

We weren’t rich but my Dad insisted on getting a single line when he got the phone. He was one of the first in the neighborhood not on a party line.

She might be old enough to have picked up the ear piece and said “Ernestine, can you get 1-3478 for me please?”

I miss the satisfaction of slamming it to hang up…definitely not the same pressing a red button

Me too, Nelson, me too.

There are apps if you want your phone to sound like an old rotary phone.

We’ve come a long way. Watch as these 17-year-old guys can’t figure out how to make a call using a rotary phone:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OADXNGnJok

Roscoe always understands

When was the last time anyone saw a phone booth?

MY COMIC OF THE DAY ….GET’S MY FAV COMIC OF DAY MEDAL! Oh brings back so many many memories.

The boy is wise beyond his years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkuirEweZvM

You could talk at the same time as the other person was talking and still hear what each other said… those were the days.