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Oh so you ought to remember the smoke signals too>>>> Could not get those in rotary though.

 

If I can find the steel dial rotary phone my grandfather had in his machine shop. I'll post a pic.

 

BR549, that's a line from a song isn't it? My grandma had a party line, when the neighbors picked it up, we'd say using and they'd hang up till we were done. Every once in a while, you'd hear a click, them checking if your off yet.

Good thing there wasn't long conversations back then normally.

What's the BR549 in reference to a party line?

 

That brings back a lot of memories. When we quit farming the first time my dad went to work for a small father/son trucking company in the little town where I'm from. We had moved into a house in town and it was only two blocks from the shop. My brother and I would ride our bikes down there and hang around and play in the old trucks. This is a small farming community and I think everyone in town worked for them at one time or another. Anyway the old man died and the son sold the trucks and was turning wrenches for a living and that's where I've always dropped my trailer so a lot of nights I would go in and visit, you never knew who might show up and there was always a lot of great stories. On the wall by the east man door is where an old phone like that hung, written all over the section of wall is dozens of old names and phone numbers many of which are long gone but they're like old ghosts from the past. A couple of years ago the son got cancer and died so that old shop is setting empty. I've thought many times if they're going to tear it down I would like to cut out that section of wall and hang it up with an old phone if I ever get a shop. Nobody writes down phone numbers anymore to my kids it would seem like a foreign concept.

 

Hee haw man!!!

 

Watch an episode of Hee Haw. Samples used car sales.

 

OMG JD,

I totally forgot about the phone book of written numbers on a piece of cardboard thumb tacked to the wall next to the phone.

 

I say break into shop cut out wall and phone. I'll donate a 4"grinder with cutting wheels. Go get it!!!

 

I still have a rotary phone in the kitchen. Still hooked up. The only drawback I found was no redial. Friend of mine had a 1-800 # at the shop. Except it was 1-888-688-9998 or something similar. Took 5 minutes to dial, and you hoped the line wasn't busy.

 

I saw one on the history channel.