Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for August 23, 2013

If you can find one of the old wood and glass ones used indoors, anywhere, let me know. They are worth a lot !My grandson didn’t know what I was talking about when I mentioned the old rotary dial phones.

How about the old crank ones…we even had party-lines! No privacy- can you imagine what those youngsters would think of that?…..no, wait a minute- they would love it- automatic social media network!

oughta see the cord on the charger

Now Superman is limited to changing in revolving doors! (Very bad special effect)

It’s even rarer to see one that still has the phone in it.

Mine had wheels

The little corner grocery store in my neighborhood had one of those gorgeous walnut phone booths with the brass “Bell Telephone” plaque standing next to the magazine rack, (later an ice-cream freezer). When the owner died, his wife eventually closed the store. She said she got $3000 for the booth. What a beautiful piece of Americana!

Cell phones have LOTS of germs on them…

And, there was partying in the phone booth.How many drunks can fit in?

whats a rotary phone?

Remember Ring downs?

When I moved to Sedona, Az. in the early ’70’s, we still had 4 digit phone numbers ( no area code no prefix ) and no mail delivery. Prior to that, I’d lived in Monument, Co. where the mail was delivered by a rider on horseback.

Good grief, how old are you guys? My idea of an old phone is a rotary dial or “the brick” mobile phone.

Our first phone had a plate over the spot where a rotary dial could go and said “number please” when you lifted the handset!

@AshburnStadiumI remember a person giving me free reign to do all the talking when I called, saying: “It’s your dime.”

The days of phone booths were safer than the cell phones are today with people getting into accidents while texting while driving or even walking for that matter.