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Originally Posted by Bruze
Mine was a typical all black (Stromberg Carlson probably) bought new in '84. The only change I made to it was to put on a longer cord.
Remember NOT having caller ID, and how differently we answered the phone when it rang?
The best inventions of the modern generation:
Intermittent wipers
Online banking
Climate control in vehicles
And, of course, caller ID  |
We got ours in 1970 when we got married. Way back then you rented (AKA Leased). Had that one down stairs and a desk dialer in the living room
Somehow in the course of time the phone company said the phone was obsolete and would no longer lease it, or fix it and gave us the phone. I had called for service (the bell was broken) That was the period that the big phone monopoly was broken up!
Figured out a way to
affro engineer the bell and the old phone just keeps on a working!