Have you ever used an old style phone with a spinning dial?

by Tee Quake Posted 2012/07/17 12:26:23

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	Yes	59 votes	92%
	No	5 votes	8%

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Raphy 2012/07/18 05:41:49

Yes

I love the phone........lol

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artistheweapon 2012/07/18 00:26:43

Yes

but it was pretend :P i really want a rotary phone super bad. if i can get a converter for analog to digital i would love to buy this red rotary phone i found in an antique store

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Relay 2012/07/18 00:13:04

Yes

yes!
and it was plugged into the wall with a huge cord!
and it was really fun to play with

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Captain Kirk~POTL 2012/07/17 22:47:51

Yes

+1
About 30 years ago!!

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cmdrbnd007 2012/07/17 21:21:41

Yes

+1
That's all there was for the first 15 years of my life.

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Lobster Man 2012/07/17 21:21:01

Yes

+2
My mother still has one.

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BlueStone 2012/07/17 20:39:37

Yes

Yes, but if you're using a calling card to call long distance it's difficult to get all the numbers right.

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Haightbear 2012/07/17 19:09:54

Yes

Yeppers

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Tarheel 2012/07/17 18:48:20

Yes

+1
When I was a kid that was all they had!

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lyle 2012/07/17 18:23:38

Yes

+1
sure, complete with the 'party line'

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Beck∞♥☮♫♫♫∞ 2012/07/17 17:01:33

Yes

+1
Sure have,

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kevracer 2012/07/17 16:47:07

Yes

+2
Rotary dial

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Leia-Lou 2012/07/17 16:43:21

Yes

+3
Alasdair bought me one just like this for my birthday yesterday :) It's awesome, I've always wanted one too :)

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Eddie_says_OrlyTaitez_is_nutz 2012/07/17 16:09:41

Yes

+2
At the time, touch tone was an extra charge

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tooner259 2012/07/17 15:26:52

Yes

+1
even used pay-phone with wood door that closed

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Bastion 2012/07/17 14:45:40

Yes

+1
I liked them.

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AndyBoy 2012/07/17 14:23:47

Yes

+1
My grandmother even had a party line...I used to go over her house and listen in to other people's conversations.

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MusicMan 2012/07/17 14:21:50

Yes

+1
For many years. Have you ever used a phone with NO dial, and had to get the operator?

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Christopher Kirchen 2012/07/17 14:20:08

Yes

+1
I was a kid in the '70's and they had them more then.

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Lorax 2012/07/17 14:19:04

Yes

+2
Yes.

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Rusty Shackleford 2012/07/17 14:10:23

Yes

+1
I remember having to only dial 4 digits to call people.

Seriously, I still remember my phone number, it was 2524.

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Mr.Steve 2012/07/17 14:08:54
me4ever 2012/07/17 14:08:08

No

+1
but i would like too

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Sgt Major B 2012/07/17 14:00:40

Yes

+1
In fact, I can recall picking up the phone and waiting for the operator to respond with "Number, please.."

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bags the Indigenous Guru 2012/07/17 13:57:24

Yes

+2
I have a 1930's dial phone in the front room. It keeps the GK's from making calls, they can't figure out how it works.

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fuzzy Ken "In G-d We Trust" 2012/07/17 13:53:47

Yes

+3
In my closet I still have my last rotary phone:

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Becca <333 2012/07/17 13:53:12

No

+2
No

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lady_c5_loadmaster 2012/07/17 13:47:14

Yes

+3
I still have one somewhere packed away. I have even used an old wooden wall crank phone. We had relatives that lived on a farm in Iowa and it was a party line.

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Bob, the reasonable one 2012/07/17 13:43:40

Yes

+3
this question dates me...I remember phonebooths that actually had sliding glass doors for privacy..

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fuzzy K... to Bob, th... 2012/07/17 13:50:49

+2
They still exist.
There are three of them in the lobby of the building I work in.

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wildcat 2012/07/17 13:41:14

Yes

+4
We had these before the new phones with the spinning dial.

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bags th... to wildcat 2012/07/17 13:58:56

+3
We have 3 of them. We installed them in the house, greenhouse and greenhouse office when the nursery was open. People got the biggest chuckle over them.

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wildcat to bags th... 2012/07/17 14:02:33

+3
They would make a pretty neat intercom system at that.

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Beck∞♥☮... to wildcat 2012/07/17 17:02:35

+2
i still own one of those. was in my grandmothers farm house when she passed on. i took it....

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wildcat to Beck∞♥☮... 2012/07/17 22:56:36

+1
smart move on your part.

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Matt 2012/07/17 13:35:30 (edited)

Yes

+5
Yes ! Our phone # was MAine 5-2636 ! I have even worked on the searchers that counted the pulses and connected the lines. We still had them for our internal phone system at U.S. Steel. They were monstrous machines that whirred and clicked until the contacts situated themselves.

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Donna to Matt 2012/07/19 02:33:00

+1
Yes, I remember these in the switching stations when i worked landline & the humongous reels that recorded all the calls on tape that they used to store in big rooms.... Lol !

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Gordon 2012/07/17 13:19:02

Yes

+5
Our home was built in 1963, and there is still an old rotary dial wall phone in the kitchen, and it works. It is quite a conversation piece!

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Barefoot Peace and Love∞ijm... 2012/07/17 13:18:39

Yes

+5

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littleb... to Barefoo... 2012/07/17 22:53:39

+1
Was this back in the days of Telephone Telegraph TeleBarefoot?

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