Door knob in the middle of the door

[Bonniegirl]

I just recently got Season 4 and 5 Family affair DVD's!! Enjoying this sweet old show very much, the cool doorknobs in the middle of the door! I thought that was so cool seeing this as a kid along with the phones they had which were the latest, most modern type of phones back than! Those rectangle shape phones with the dial on the phone receiver, a pink one in the girls bedroom and a green one out in the living room! And in the earlier seasons Cissy's pink "Princes phone " she had in her room !! I thought both types of phones were SO COOL (and modern) when I was a kid !!

[Hazel Anyday]

I have always had those exact thoughts. I love that '60's style of telephones, not only did they look great but they were also very comfortable to hold and fit the mouth and ear perfectly. As a kid we had a wall phone that you see in '60's shows, the hand set was the same as the desk phones except the rest of it was hung on a wall and I didn't like it. I remember asking my Dad could we get a desk phone like they have on TV, naturally he said no. But those desk phones esp. the rotary desk phones are so perfect looking to me.

So the first thing I did when I moved out on my own was to buy those exact style '60s desk phones. I even bought my sister a pink "Princess" phone like you see on '60's TV shows. Over the years since I've gotten several different color desk phones (they're called series 500) and though I didn't like the '70s touch tone phones as much I have a few of those today too because you can't do business unless you have a touch tone.

So to this day I have never owned a cell phone and am still proud to use my '60's phones each and every day. They're the only phones I have. My blue desk phone reminds me of the exact kind of phone Hazel used. But my proudest phone is my Avengers inspired 2 tone phone it looks just like the red and black one you see in this picture.

[Hazel Anyday]

The yellow wall phone we actually had in my house as a kid looked like this, it was in the kitchen:


The blue phone I have that reminds me of Hazel looks like this:

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

The yellow wall phone we actually had in my house as a kid looked like this, it was in the kitchen:


The blue phone I have that reminds me of Hazel looks like this:

We had that exact same yellow telephone on our kitchen wall when I was a kid , and we never had a blue phone like the one in the picture , but one just like it in a tan color in my Parents bedroom and a really old black phone ( I think an older model phone)? downstairs in the hall right near the living room !

[Hazel Anyday]

I love using these phones, they remind me of the '60 TV shows everytime I look at them. Practically all the shows from the '60's used these rotary desk phones series 500. Everytime I see them I love 'em. Dick Van Dyke Show always used them.

I have used other people's cell phones once in a while not only do I feel like an idiot as I never know where I'm supposed to talk as there's no mouthpiece and you are forced to talk in the air but I never know how to hang up. So I have to hand the phone back and say you have to hang it up.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

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So to this day I have never owned a cell phone and am still proud to use my '60's phones each and every day. They're the only phones I have. My blue desk phone reminds me of the exact kind of phone Hazel used. But my proudest phone is my Avengers inspired 2 tone phone it looks just like the red and black one you see in this picture.

Here here! Or perhaps I should say "Hear Hear!"
The beautiful thing about those phones is how clearly you can hear people, and how clearly you can be heard.

All the highly styled phone sets you can buy at the fad boutiques seem to think audio quality is unimportant.

And the "omni directional" microphones used in most cell phones are a joke. So often a person using those phones get their heads cocked at one angle and the phone cocked at another, and you end up guessing what 50 % of the conversation must be about. No wonder there is so much misunderstanding.

Those older phones got the job done right.

[Hazel Anyday]

That is very true Gent Jim, I didn't think to say it. But everytime I talk to someone using a cell phone I can barely understand a word they're saying and the sound keeps going in and out. This is supposed to be a modern day improvement over the old phones of the '60's and '70? It seems the more features they add on these modern day confangled cell phones Iphones Uphones whatever the more HORRIBLE the sound quality.

It seems these modern day phone manufacturers have forgotten the main purpose of a phone is to be able to talk and hear the person clearly that you're talking to. My Mom had a cell phone and I bought her a regular good old fashioned Wall phone (she didn't want a desk) that looks like the touch tone phones of the '70's. It never ever fails, every time she uses that phone other people can hear her clearly and it never fades.

I'm glad I will never be texting with my rotary phone, and the real benefit is I'm not bothered with other people trying to text me. Their efforts will be futile up against my rotary.

[1960'sTVfan]

I used to have a cell phone but now I just have a land line. On the subject of talking on the phone, it really irritates me when the person I'm talking to puts me on speaker phone. It gives the person's voice a loud echo effect and it's close to impossible to understand what they're saying. When this happens, I want to tell the person, don't put me on speaker phone, hang up and call me back when you can talk to me the normal way through the mouthpiece on the telephone.

[LisaB61367]

I always thought the door knobs in the middle were a bit unusual.

[SarahBellum]

My next house is going to have doors with knobs in the middle.

[RetroGuy2000]

Seeing these old phone sure takes me back. I think we had an olive green rotary phone similar to the blue one, shown above, back in the late 1970s. And my grandparents had a pink one all throughout the late 1970s to 1995, when they sold their house. (They might have even had it previous to the late 1970s, but I wouldn't know.)

[nightcrawler]

I just caught a you tube of where Jody arrives, and as they open the double doors I noticed that there was nothing on the side of the door, no, thing that pops out, like the wood was all smooth. I am probably not explaining it right but it would look to me like the doors were held by a magnet at the top, like closet doors would be, thus making it not real for an entrance door. Maybe someone else can see what I mean by this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKCLXhYzuM

and now I just saw another episode and there was side hardware

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDeDGFzvwPU

[CosmicCharlie]

My great niece age 6 was watching tv with my sister and the little girl ask what was that THING the lady on the tv was holding up to her head ? It was just a 60's Bell Telephone