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Soyin Milka · 05-15-2003, 09:44 AM

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Originally posted by BigJim
Wow, I've heard of those. They don't look really conveient. Too big to put in your pocket or clip on to your belt. Did people just leave them in their cars back then?

I think they were probably used to defend against burglars. There's a handle, some form of chain and a heavier part. I'm thinking morning star. *WHAM* You can even call 9-1-1 with it. It's the complete self-defense item!

Soyin

Born Free · 05-15-2003, 10:21 AM

Stop it!!!! I'm getting a hernia.

Catseye · 05-15-2003, 04:04 PM

It's cream, the same model as the first picture.

Still feel like I should be saying 'Hello, Operator?' whenever I pick it up

Nickle · 05-17-2003, 10:36 AM

lisarea · 05-17-2003, 12:51 PM

OOH! PHONE PORN!

In my office right now, I have three 500 desktop models, designed by my hero, Henry Dreyfus. I have black, red, and green. I also have pink and black wall-mounted 500s, several Trimlines in different colors, and a few throwaway phones with them newfangled pushbuttons. I have a massive tangle of four-prong adapters, Y-connections, etc., so they're all hooked up, and if they ring, I can decide what kind of phone I feel like talking on.

In my bedroom, I have a 200 model in off-white. It's an odd one, as it has a cloth spring cord. I've never seen that model like that. I think it's from about 1921, but now I don't remember. I also have a dreamy pink Princess phone, for talking to cute boys with.

Throughout the rest of the house, I have several more 500 models, too, because whenever I see one, I get all floaty and in love and have to bring it home with me. I've also had to make purchase of several cheap and slutty telephones incorporating features such as push buttons, cordless capability, Caller ID, etc., but I don't love them. I'm just using them.

EDIT: Know what else I've got? Like, buttloads of promotional phone company material! Including this short movie called "The Long Honeymoon" or something like that! It's about 20 minutes long, and it's a musical love story created by Ma Bell in the 50s, I think, to introduce the 500 model color options. Seriously! There's this part where the lady is dancing around in her kitchen singing a song about how beautiful her new red kitchen phone is, and the new telephone causes all of her other appliances to magically upgrade!

villainess · 05-18-2003, 08:39 AM

My family had a cream-colored dial phone similar to the top photo in the OP (it might have been white originally, or yellow, knowing my family) until the very late eighties. We were also on a party line. No, not the kind where you meet professional females for dirty talk.

Worse yet, my grandmother was on the same party line.

Between this and the post about the woodchuck I'm probably making my upbringing sound a bit more hardscrabble than it actually was.

the_villainess

Opera Nut · 05-18-2003, 10:27 PM

Yeah those Yellow THings are American models that us Merrricans know and love.

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05-15-2003, 10:21 AM	#12
Born Free Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Scotland Posts: 4,177	Stop it!!!! I'm getting a hernia.

05-15-2003, 04:04 PM	#13
Catseye Regular Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: UK Posts: 145	It's cream, the same model as the first picture. Still feel like I should be saying 'Hello, Operator?' whenever I pick it up

05-17-2003, 10:36 AM	#14
Nickle Regular Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Texas Posts: 385

05-17-2003, 12:51 PM	#15
lisarea Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Broomfield, Colorado, USA Posts: 5,550	OOH! PHONE PORN! In my office right now, I have three 500 desktop models, designed by my hero, Henry Dreyfus. I have black, red, and green. I also have pink and black wall-mounted 500s, several Trimlines in different colors, and a few throwaway phones with them newfangled pushbuttons. I have a massive tangle of four-prong adapters, Y-connections, etc., so they're all hooked up, and if they ring, I can decide what kind of phone I feel like talking on. In my bedroom, I have a 200 model in off-white. It's an odd one, as it has a cloth spring cord. I've never seen that model like that. I think it's from about 1921, but now I don't remember. I also have a dreamy pink Princess phone, for talking to cute boys with. Throughout the rest of the house, I have several more 500 models, too, because whenever I see one, I get all floaty and in love and have to bring it home with me. I've also had to make purchase of several cheap and slutty telephones incorporating features such as push buttons, cordless capability, Caller ID, etc., but I don't love them. I'm just using them. EDIT: Know what else I've got? Like, buttloads of promotional phone company material! Including this short movie called "The Long Honeymoon" or something like that! It's about 20 minutes long, and it's a musical love story created by Ma Bell in the 50s, I think, to introduce the 500 model color options. Seriously! There's this part where the lady is dancing around in her kitchen singing a song about how beautiful her new red kitchen phone is, and the new telephone causes all of her other appliances to magically upgrade!

05-18-2003, 08:39 AM	#16
villainess Regular Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ithaca, NY Posts: 471	My family had a cream-colored dial phone similar to the top photo in the OP (it might have been white originally, or yellow, knowing my family) until the very late eighties. We were also on a party line. No, not the kind where you meet professional females for dirty talk. Worse yet, my grandmother was on the same party line. Between this and the post about the woodchuck I'm probably making my upbringing sound a bit more hardscrabble than it actually was. the_villainess

05-18-2003, 10:27 PM	#17
Opera Nut Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,671	Yeah those Yellow THings are American models that us Merrricans know and love.

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