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Title: Do you still have a rodery phone?
Post by: melodylogan45 on September 16, 2014, 08:48:57 am
We are so spoiled now with our touch tone phones and I was sitting here thinking about the old
rodery phone. I no longer have one and really do not miss it.

How about you☎☎☎☎☎☎
Title: Re: Do you still have a rodery phone?
Post by: jford87 on September 16, 2014, 08:51:31 am
I have never owned a rotary phone. I had a friend as a child who had one in her house
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Post by: Nancy5 on September 16, 2014, 08:58:20 am
Haven't had a rotary phone in years.
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Post by: loulizlee on September 16, 2014, 09:11:42 am
We had a rotary phone many years ago.  I even remember when, living in the country,  there were several households on a line and you could pick up the phone sometimes and someone would  be on the line.  There was no security then!!
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Post by: countrygirl12 on September 16, 2014, 03:00:14 pm
Yeah but what did you need to be secure from way back then?  People did not even lock their doors when they left home.
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Post by: vp44 on September 16, 2014, 03:09:11 pm
I have a cordless touch tone phone. I like the new gadgets. I can walk all around the house with my phone. I am glad too because no more tangled phone cords. LOL :)
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Post by: raven1114 on September 16, 2014, 11:57:34 pm
We have a couple of them but they're not hooked up.
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Post by: inertia4 on September 17, 2014, 04:15:48 am
Wow, a rotary phone. I actually have not seen one of those in many years now. You do still see them in old movies. I could never live with one of those phones today. Although, back then, Bell telephone was the main company. They did not break up until later on. Now you have AT&T and Verizon.
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Post by: jkhanson on September 17, 2014, 06:02:14 am
We had a rotary phone many years ago.  I even remember when, living in the country,  there were several households on a line and you could pick up the phone sometimes and someone would  be on the line.  There was no security then!!

I grew up in the country too and we also had a "party" line where all the people on the mile could pick up the phone when it rang and listen in on the conversation. 



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Post by: bowrunner on September 17, 2014, 10:19:04 am
I used to have a rotary phone but haven't had one in years.  I suppose some people still have them though.
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Post by: monnee on September 17, 2014, 10:35:15 am
I got rid of it years ago.
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Post by: LenoraMinogue on September 17, 2014, 10:36:07 am
I've never owned a rotary phone, but I've used one before. Dialing numbers certainly took awhile longer. Talk about a time investment to dial a friend. Now even push button phones are passe. Most use smart phones where you don't even have to know someone's number at all to call them.
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Post by: aflyingmonkey on September 17, 2014, 10:46:19 am
We used to have a Mickey Mouse statue rotary phone growing up.

I'm glad there are smartphones now to use.  I do miss the ring tone of a phone, the music ones are so boring.
I switch the sounds on my smartphone to a phone ringing.  Should be a default, but no, I had to search & download one & install it.

I use a typewriter sound for text messages.  :)
Title: Re: Do you still have a rodery phone?
Post by: makeblessed on September 17, 2014, 11:51:53 am
No, and have not seen one in a long time.
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Post by: luvh8tragedy87 on September 17, 2014, 09:32:32 pm
The very first house I lived in we had one in the hallway. It didn't work though. Last year we moved into my grandparents house and they have one in the kitchen. It used to work, I've talked on it before. I even had an old one that I used to play with.
Title: Re: Do you still have a rodery phone?
Post by: jenniferhoder on September 18, 2014, 04:24:44 am
Nope, haven't seen those in ages. Thinking about it now, geez it took a long time to dial with one of those! lol
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Post by: kingozzy on September 18, 2014, 06:31:05 am
A phone is a phone, I rarely talk on the phone regardless of what kind it is...  :silly:
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Post by: dbsaus1 on September 18, 2014, 06:45:50 am
I cannot remember when I last had a rotary phone, before I got married perhaps.
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Post by: devideddi on September 18, 2014, 08:37:46 am
no, but would love to have one!
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Post by: Seenobita on September 18, 2014, 03:18:54 pm
Oh we used to have them years back... now a day we do not even see them, they were one classic piece of creation :)
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Post by: timvolley on September 18, 2014, 03:24:04 pm
no i don't have a rotary phone and have seen in a long while
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Post by: dwggs on September 19, 2014, 05:32:43 am
Rotary phones are long gone .. but yes I do remember them ... showing my age .. lol
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Post by: colbtrist on September 19, 2014, 09:08:50 am
No but my kids seen on the other day and was confused by it. lol
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Post by: alice44 on September 19, 2014, 09:10:36 am
I had one in storage for years.  Just got rid of it during our last move.  Couldn't see any purpose to hold on to it any longer.