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Fashionable flashback – a wall mount telephone!
Once in a while I come across nostalgic home features that take me down memory lane. For some (much younger) home buyers I get to explain why these things were once cool and useful. I’ve had similar success as my dad (a retired engineer) trying to explain to me why four different color pens with a ruler in a pocket protector was a good thing! For those of you who remember the days of corded, wall-mounted telephones, meander with me into the pre cellular era…Remember how annoying rotary dialing was with phone numbers that had lots of high numbers? Remember talking to an operator? Remember calling for the correct time – “at the tone the time will be…”? Remember the coiled cord that would knot up so you could barely remove the phone from the cradle when it rang? For that matter, remember what a phone cord was? Remember the clattering bell or piercing beeps when a call came in? Remember the sound cut-out of call waiting signaling a waiting call?
Remember hooking up and programming answering machines? And how exciting digital answering machines were since they no longer required tapes? Remember the advent of cordless phones and their retractable antennas? Remember losing your cordless phone and hoping someone would call you so you could find it before the battery went dead? WAIT! I think we still have that problem…
