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Hazel Anyday · 08-01-2022, 08:40 PM

Wow, you are living in 1970's ville. I had a similar set up in my apartment 40 years ago. But I appreciate how you feel. I still have my old 25 inch CRT TV (never called it that as long as I had it, but now that's what they call them) in my bedroom. But I NEVER watch TV in the bedroom, so that TV will probably never die, but it's still there ready to serve.

But don't feel too out of it, I still use telephones exactly like you see on Leave It To Beaver and Hazel. I think those phones had the most perfect design for use with mouth and ear. They fit perfectly and no one had a hard time hearing you, you know just where to speak.

I have never used a cell phone and hope to never use one. Anytime I talk to someone who uses them they sound just like a bad AM radio and the sound goes in and out and finally just pops out. Never have this trouble with the old land line phones, they're perfect. They should have perfected cell phones before they released them onto the public. Now everyone suffers with lousy sound and lousy connections.

1960'sTVfan · 08-02-2022, 10:00 AM

I'm with you Hazel Anyday, I don't have a cell phone either, just a land line. I used to have a cell phone but don't really need one now so I just have the land line.

In some ways, I live like it's still the 1970's. Aside from a few of the "modern" things like DVD's and a DVD player, and a computer for internet access. Also cable TV, I've had cable since the 1980's.

stevea · 08-03-2022, 06:59 AM

I don't have a cell phone/smartphone either, and do I ever hear about it!
I don't have a rotary phone like HA, but I do have the landline. No picture-tube TVs though.

AT&T moved the landline over to fiber optic cable a few months ago. It was either that or they'd disconnect it without my ordering it. That happened to an acquaintance--they didn't send her a letter, they just pulled it out. Anyway, now that mine is on the fiber, the power has gone out twice--and when the power goes out, so does the phone. That didn't happen before--AT&T was supposed to put in a battery backup, but didn't.

24/7 reruns · 08-03-2022, 08:16 PM

To all of you Old School folks I'm impressed with your love of old technology. Honestly it took me a great deal of time to get a smartphone. I got a flip phone years after they were introduced due to having my car crap out on the Interstate and being stranded for hours. Then last year I got a smart phone again due to car trouble and realizing the flip phone had limitations with finding phone numbers, lacking GPS, etc.

I rarely us the smartphone as a phone. I'm normally streaming shows from YouTube during lunch breaks at work. Right now I'm in the middle of the run of the series, The Gale Storm Show - Oh Susanna.

24/7 reruns · 08-03-2022, 08:23 PM

Does any one know why there are fewer episodes on season 3 and 4 than season 1, 2, 5 and 6.

Also for season 3 I only saw one episode that was a rebroadcast. I've gone through the first 25 episodes from that season.

CJ · 08-04-2022, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by 24/7 reruns

Does any one know why there are fewer episodes on season 3 and 4 than season 1, 2, 5 and 6.

Also for season 3 I only saw one episode that was a rebroadcast. I've gone through the first 25 episodes from that season.

This is likely the reason.

There were several rerun episodes during seasons 3 & 4 with no summer reruns after June for those 2 seasons. Instead each had summer replacement shows.

Seasons 1 & 2 did not have any reruns.

Season 5 had no reruns during the regular season until summer reruns began in July.

Season 6 had just 2 reruns during the regular season with summer reruns beginning in mid-June.

I am very excited for season 5 & 6 as there will be 9 "new" episodes that I have only read about and am dying to see. I pre-ordered them the day I found out they were available. Plus, these seasons begin the Rick's singing episodes.

1960'sTVfan · 08-04-2022, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by stevea

I don't have a cell phone/smartphone either, and do I ever hear about it!
I don't have a rotary phone like HA, but I do have the landline. No picture-tube TVs though.

AT&T moved the landline over to fiber optic cable a few months ago. It was either that or they'd disconnect it without my ordering it. That happened to an acquaintance--they didn't send her a letter, they just pulled it out. Anyway, now that mine is on the fiber, the power has gone out twice--and when the power goes out, so does the phone. That didn't happen before--AT&T was supposed to put in a battery backup, but didn't.

I also don't have a rotary phone, just the push button land line type of phone.

My land line is connected with the cable TV service, so if the cable goes out, the phone and internet also goes out. It's annoying whenever this happens but fortunately it doesn't occur too often.

With the way this world is going, the thought has crossed my mind that land line phone service might eventually be discontinued everywhere and people will be required to have a cell phone whether they want one or not.

stevea · 08-04-2022, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 1960'sTVfan

I also don't have a rotary phone, just the push button land line type of phone.

My land line is connected with the cable TV service, so if the cable goes out, the phone and internet also goes out. It's annoying whenever this happens but fortunately it doesn't occur too often.

With the way this world is going, the thought has crossed my mind that land line phone service might eventually be discontinued everywhere and people will be required to have a cell phone whether they want one or not.

Comment on the first bolded quote: Ha! The cable companies claim this doesn't happen. It might not happen in some circumstances, but if a cable is physically cut (like if a pole is knocked down), it will go out. With Comcast, at least here, if the TV goes down, so does the internet.

Comment on second: With AT&T, at least in Indiana, when the fiber comes thru, the landline either goes to the fiber, or it goes, period.

General comment: I might have sounded above, at some point, like I have a problem with picture-tube TVs. Not at all, Sony Trinitrons were great TVs, and I've had at least one of those--it's probably my favorite CRT TV.

Hazel Anyday · 08-04-2022, 12:11 PM

I'm a '50s & '60s phone fancier, I like them in a variety of colors that I switch up during the year. The technical name for the 60's rotary is the 500 series, the '70's push button type is the 2500 series. In the fall I usually use my bright orange rotary, summer I have a bright green rotary phone, my blue rotary phone has been in my bedroom for almost 40 years, even an unusual peach colored phone, not pink, but peach, have several red phones both rotary and push button and 2 Two Tone phones like I pictured above except mine are push button 2500's that I created by combining the parts of a black and a red phone together. Using the black and a red's phone handle, body and cord. I do have some 70's style push button phones the type you'd see on Courtship of Eddie's Father. In today's world anytime you call a business or they call you you have to have a push button phone to communicate with these darn automated machines they use. But still proud to say absolutely no cell phones or even the slightly modern cordless walk-around phone either. All of mine are either '60's or '70's types. Though they are all not cordless I do use a 50 foot cord on 2 of them so I can walk about.

stevea · 08-04-2022, 01:03 PM

I have some Princess "innards" and a peach Princess shell and handset, and a turquoise one, as well. All touchtone.

Again, touchtone, wall (2554), I have one mounted in the garage that is dark blue right now, but I also have a 2554 brown shell and handset that I can change it into.

I have a red 2500 in the basement but I have shell and handset which could turn it into light gray. For the touchtone pads for these i prefer the "soft-touch" upgraded pads from the 1980s, which actually are way less trouble-prone than the original electromechanical touchtone pads.

My 2500 and 2554 models have original electromechanical innards from the 1980s (again, other than the touchtone pad). Newer table and wall models from AT&T (maybe in the 90s) were totally redone innards, light, and really, crap.

Most of these Western Electric colors are not common at all. The common ones were black, white, red, olive green, tan, ivory, yellow, light blue. I think I've seen Ann Marie use a pink Princess and maybe a light blue Trimline--I don't know if pink was a common color or not. In the later seasons Ann had an olive green 2500 in her L.R.--pretty impressive for the late 1960s. Ann had to be mod, even with her phone.

I also have a hunter green AT&T Trimline 230, probably from the 90s. It's a discontinued model but it's really a nice phone, but I will say the model is prone to trouble. I had a red one which would periodically emit a loud tone from the receiver, for no reason at all. Generally the Trimline was a great phone for Western from the get-go, and probably made them tons of money.

Hazel Anyday · 08-04-2022, 06:37 PM

Back in the '70's the first phone I actually bought from an AT&T store was a black candlestick phone (the type Andy Griffith uses in his sheriff's office). I still have it but find it too inconvenient to use for very long (you have to use both hands to talk and it gets annoying). At one time back in the early '80's I bought a real slick mod looking skinny phone with a black handle and a red skinny body (this was not any regular phone made by the major phone people). But it was very mod looking and unfortunately extremely light (would slide off the table) and it was CHEAP. Well, you get what you pay for, it stopped working about 3 months later. Not learning my lesson I also bought a cheap teal colored imitation early '50's LOOKING (not genuine) blue phone. Once again, beautiful, looked like a teal colored '50's phone, once again very light and once again ceased operation after just 2 months. Talk about all show and no go, that's what these beautiful LOOKING modern phones were. After that I learned my lesson and only bought genuine either AT&T or IT&T 500 or 2500 phones. When I was a kid we had a yellow wall phone (like hangs in Beaver's kitchen) but I always wanted a desk phone. My Dad refused to buy a desk phone so the first thing I bought when I was on my own was a desk phone (that dark blue one I have now in the bedroom). I still don't like wall phones and I don't use them.

(Shamed to admit this, but my Mom who's still alive wanted a new WALL phone to replace her old '70's wall phone. So I shamefully

bought a wall phone, (a '70's push button type) a red one for her. She got it and did nothing but complain about it "I can't hear it" it's actually VERY loud. She's just mostly deaf. The red one even lit up when it rang so she could see it even if she couldn't hear it

. So I then bought another this time tan '70's push button wall phone for her and now she's happy. Well when I replaced that red wall phone I took it home to test it to see if it really was as bad as she constantly complained I put it on the wall in my kitchen. It had one problem since I've had it (for about a year now) and once the connection didn't connect, for some reason the wire in the back came out.) Other than that it's worked perfectly and rings LOUD and still lights up like a siren on a police car. It's still on the wall in my kitchen, and I shamefully

still use it. Though I had to attach an extra long wire to it to be able to go more than 4 feet from it.

stevea · 08-04-2022, 07:30 PM

Yup, you see varying probably-Western Electric phones on O&H over the years. In the later years all you can tell is that the one we always see is a light-colored one, probably white, ivory, or tan. When and if season 14 comes out on DVD, I'll check. I don't remember what color it is on any of the few color episodes I've seen.

08-01-2022, 08:40 PM	#61
Hazel Anyday Member Senior Member Join Date: Apr 12, 2002 Posts: 2,135	Time Tunnel Wow, you are living in 1970's ville. I had a similar set up in my apartment 40 years ago. But I appreciate how you feel. I still have my old 25 inch CRT TV (never called it that as long as I had it, but now that's what they call them) in my bedroom. But I NEVER watch TV in the bedroom, so that TV will probably never die, but it's still there ready to serve. But don't feel too out of it, I still use telephones exactly like you see on Leave It To Beaver and Hazel. I think those phones had the most perfect design for use with mouth and ear. They fit perfectly and no one had a hard time hearing you, you know just where to speak. I have never used a cell phone and hope to never use one. Anytime I talk to someone who uses them they sound just like a bad AM radio and the sound goes in and out and finally just pops out. Never have this trouble with the old land line phones, they're perfect. They should have perfected cell phones before they released them onto the public. Now everyone suffers with lousy sound and lousy connections.
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08-04-2022, 12:11 PM	#69
Hazel Anyday Member Senior Member Join Date: Apr 12, 2002 Posts: 2,135	I Let My Fingers Do The Dialing or pushing I'm a '50s & '60s phone fancier, I like them in a variety of colors that I switch up during the year. The technical name for the 60's rotary is the 500 series, the '70's push button type is the 2500 series. In the fall I usually use my bright orange rotary, summer I have a bright green rotary phone, my blue rotary phone has been in my bedroom for almost 40 years, even an unusual peach colored phone, not pink, but peach, have several red phones both rotary and push button and 2 Two Tone phones like I pictured above except mine are push button 2500's that I created by combining the parts of a black and a red phone together. Using the black and a red's phone handle, body and cord. I do have some 70's style push button phones the type you'd see on Courtship of Eddie's Father. In today's world anytime you call a business or they call you you have to have a push button phone to communicate with these darn automated machines they use. But still proud to say absolutely no cell phones or even the slightly modern cordless walk-around phone either. All of mine are either '60's or '70's types. Though they are all not cordless I do use a 50 foot cord on 2 of them so I can walk about.

08-04-2022, 06:37 PM	#71
Hazel Anyday Member Senior Member Join Date: Apr 12, 2002 Posts: 2,135	Phone talk, hey O&H Used the Same Phones, so it relates to O&H Thread Back in the '70's the first phone I actually bought from an AT&T store was a black candlestick phone (the type Andy Griffith uses in his sheriff's office). I still have it but find it too inconvenient to use for very long (you have to use both hands to talk and it gets annoying). At one time back in the early '80's I bought a real slick mod looking skinny phone with a black handle and a red skinny body (this was not any regular phone made by the major phone people). But it was very mod looking and unfortunately extremely light (would slide off the table) and it was CHEAP. Well, you get what you pay for, it stopped working about 3 months later. Not learning my lesson I also bought a cheap teal colored imitation early '50's LOOKING (not genuine) blue phone. Once again, beautiful, looked like a teal colored '50's phone, once again very light and once again ceased operation after just 2 months. Talk about all show and no go, that's what these beautiful LOOKING modern phones were. After that I learned my lesson and only bought genuine either AT&T or IT&T 500 or 2500 phones. When I was a kid we had a yellow wall phone (like hangs in Beaver's kitchen) but I always wanted a desk phone. My Dad refused to buy a desk phone so the first thing I bought when I was on my own was a desk phone (that dark blue one I have now in the bedroom). I still don't like wall phones and I don't use them. (Shamed to admit this, but my Mom who's still alive wanted a new WALL phone to replace her old '70's wall phone. So I shamefully bought a wall phone, (a '70's push button type) a red one for her. She got it and did nothing but complain about it "I can't hear it" it's actually VERY loud. She's just mostly deaf. The red one even lit up when it rang so she could see it even if she couldn't hear it. So I then bought another this time tan '70's push button wall phone for her and now she's happy. Well when I replaced that red wall phone I took it home to test it to see if it really was as bad as she constantly complained I put it on the wall in my kitchen. It had one problem since I've had it (for about a year now) and once the connection didn't connect, for some reason the wire in the back came out.) Other than that it's worked perfectly and rings LOUD and still lights up like a siren on a police car. It's still on the wall in my kitchen, and I shamefully still use it. Though I had to attach an extra long wire to it to be able to go more than 4 feet from it.

08-02-2022, 10:00 AM	#62
1960'sTVfan Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 30, 2009 Posts: 6,071	I'm with you Hazel Anyday, I don't have a cell phone either, just a land line. I used to have a cell phone but don't really need one now so I just have the land line. In some ways, I live like it's still the 1970's. Aside from a few of the "modern" things like DVD's and a DVD player, and a computer for internet access. Also cable TV, I've had cable since the 1980's.

08-03-2022, 06:59 AM	#63
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,443	I don't have a cell phone/smartphone either, and do I ever hear about it! I don't have a rotary phone like HA, but I do have the landline. No picture-tube TVs though. AT&T moved the landline over to fiber optic cable a few months ago. It was either that or they'd disconnect it without my ordering it. That happened to an acquaintance--they didn't send her a letter, they just pulled it out. Anyway, now that mine is on the fiber, the power has gone out twice--and when the power goes out, so does the phone. That didn't happen before--AT&T was supposed to put in a battery backup, but didn't.

08-03-2022, 08:16 PM	#64
24/7 reruns Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 10, 2022 Location: New York Posts: 1,468	To all of you Old School folks I'm impressed with your love of old technology. Honestly it took me a great deal of time to get a smartphone. I got a flip phone years after they were introduced due to having my car crap out on the Interstate and being stranded for hours. Then last year I got a smart phone again due to car trouble and realizing the flip phone had limitations with finding phone numbers, lacking GPS, etc. I rarely us the smartphone as a phone. I'm normally streaming shows from YouTube during lunch breaks at work. Right now I'm in the middle of the run of the series, The Gale Storm Show - Oh Susanna.

08-03-2022, 08:23 PM	#65
24/7 reruns Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 10, 2022 Location: New York Posts: 1,468	Does any one know why there are fewer episodes on season 3 and 4 than season 1, 2, 5 and 6. Also for season 3 I only saw one episode that was a rebroadcast. I've gone through the first 25 episodes from that season.

08-04-2022, 01:03 PM	#70
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,443	I have some Princess "innards" and a peach Princess shell and handset, and a turquoise one, as well. All touchtone. Again, touchtone, wall (2554), I have one mounted in the garage that is dark blue right now, but I also have a 2554 brown shell and handset that I can change it into. I have a red 2500 in the basement but I have shell and handset which could turn it into light gray. For the touchtone pads for these i prefer the "soft-touch" upgraded pads from the 1980s, which actually are way less trouble-prone than the original electromechanical touchtone pads. My 2500 and 2554 models have original electromechanical innards from the 1980s (again, other than the touchtone pad). Newer table and wall models from AT&T (maybe in the 90s) were totally redone innards, light, and really, crap. Most of these Western Electric colors are not common at all. The common ones were black, white, red, olive green, tan, ivory, yellow, light blue. I think I've seen Ann Marie use a pink Princess and maybe a light blue Trimline--I don't know if pink was a common color or not. In the later seasons Ann had an olive green 2500 in her L.R.--pretty impressive for the late 1960s. Ann had to be mod, even with her phone. I also have a hunter green AT&T Trimline 230, probably from the 90s. It's a discontinued model but it's really a nice phone, but I will say the model is prone to trouble. I had a red one which would periodically emit a loud tone from the receiver, for no reason at all. Generally the Trimline was a great phone for Western from the get-go, and probably made them tons of money.

08-04-2022, 07:30 PM	#72
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,443	Yup, you see varying probably-Western Electric phones on O&H over the years. In the later years all you can tell is that the one we always see is a light-colored one, probably white, ivory, or tan. When and if season 14 comes out on DVD, I'll check. I don't remember what color it is on any of the few color episodes I've seen.