National Telephone Day |Pad Patter 4.25.17

[bellbird]

we were high class when we got a phone that hung on the wall and was push button

didn't buttons cut in half the time it took to ring numbers with 8's and 9's in it!

 

[Iowan]

I'm old enough to remember the "number please", which was pre-rotary dial. Both my parents work for Ma Bell. My dad was in charge of purchasing land across the Midwest to bury the long lines for long distance calling. We had a couple of the old crank phones in the house, one upstairs in the attic where we girls had our bedroom and one down in the basement set up on an intercom system. Of course this was all a million years ago.