Pluggers by Rick McKee for April 08, 2022

One of the Fine Brothers’ videos much?

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

I still don’t know how the little dial on a I-pod works…

When it comes to Phones tis amazing how far we have come in such a short time ! The only problem I see is that we are now in the addiction phase with Cellphones . When the crash comes the big hurt will be here ;-)

the look on the kid’s face, reminds of my grandsons…….

In other news: The next generation may never learn to change a tire. My new car came without a spare – just an electric pump and a can of tire sealant.

I remember, when we were kids, finding a much older phone in our attic, taking it apart, and finding and playing with some horseshoe magnets from inside it.

Eh we not even has one of those phones.

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My 4 year old grandson is coming for a visit. I plan on letting him play with my college typewriter.

None in use now, but I had an Aunt and Uncle that had the crank style phone on the wall. Always liked turning the crank, holding the ear piece to my ear, standing on my tiptoes to speak into the speaker and to talking to the operator. That phone would really baffle today’s youth.

All the way around to the stop. Pull your finger out and let it go back by itself. (Actual instructions I’ve had to be specific about with fourth graders.)

And her grandson will have to tell her that it won’t work any more.

Remember early touch tone phones that had a switch, so it would make the dial sounds?

Sad.

Here’s a question. In the old movies a character runs to a phone booth and dials a number. It always seems to be the same one. I ends with a long dial (9? 10?) then two short (1? 2?) ones. It’s something like the “ Wilhelm scream” that is so common.

A little triva-area codes were assigned based on the cities size with the largest cities having area codes easy to dial-NYC had 212, DC 202 Chicago 312…

Rotary phones won’t work anymore, will they?

Better check the kid’s eyes. His pupils look diallated…

It’d been even worse had he asked how did the candlestick phones work when you were little?

Excellente’ Very good.!

The first phone I remember did not have a dial. You picked it up, waited for the operator to say “Number Please” and then told them the number you wanted to call. Local exchanges had names and numbers. Ours was Northfield 3. That became NO3 with the early dial phones and is now just 663.

My grandma had a bunch of old phones. Whenever I went to her house I would play with them. Taught myself how to use a rotary phone by just playing with it.

This is NOT true!

My niece and nephew (now in their early 30s) had no trouble figuring out how the dial phone worked at “grandma’s house” and were able to make calls to who knows who that were long distance long before they were 5 years old.

Husband’s niece used to come to our house one day a week while her mother went to her gym. She is in her early 20s. We had a toy phone with my teddy bear stuff. She had no problem figuring out that it was telephone and how to dial it and talk on it.

(Now, my niece and nephew did think that one use of a record turntable was to put a paper plate on it with a hole in the center to match the turntable center and old it in place, was to stand holding a marker pen in one spot and turn it on makes a circle on the plate as it turns around – repeat with more colors and in more locations and cut in half to make 2 rainbows. They also knew how to play records on it.)

Did you know rotary phones still work in many areas?