Those old telephones in the Cleaver's used.

[comet97]

Those old telephones in the '50s and '60s that the Cleavers had to use were a real nightmare,because you had to actually 'Dial' each and every number,with a rotery dial. Not to mention being anchored to the wall by a cord. Not like we do today boy!
No matter where we are on earth,we have a portable cell phone at our disposal,with push button technology to boot! (LOL) And NO CORDS!!!
Ain't we a lucky bunch?


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I gotta wonder though,what in the hell did all these people telephoning everyone today, ever do without a portable cell phone before,... huh?

[UncleBilly]

I grew up with one of those rotary dial wall phones. In fact, it is still on the wall at my mother's house. We had a pantry/storage room off the kitchen and I remember stretching the cord into there to talk so I could have privacy. Now with cordless handsets you can go in any room to have conversations! I guess we have all become so spoiled with technology.

[desilu #1]

Well I take after my dad when it comes to unnecessary technology. There might be one reason to own a cellphone and that to me is emergencies. I still don't own a cellphone and do not plan on getting one either. Heck, I don't even believe in call waiting, I figure if they get a busy signal they will call back cause I certainly ain't gonna put someone on hold to answer another call than can wait. I find it silly that kids of all ages have their own stinkin' phone and all they do is yack on that phone and run a huge bill up that mom and dad are crazy enough to pay.

[comet97]

Originally posted by UncleBilly
I grew up with one of those rotary dial wall phones. In fact, it is still on the wall at my mother's house. We had a pantry/storage room off the kitchen and I remember stretching the cord into there to talk so I could have privacy. Now with cordless handsets you can go in any room to have conversations! I guess we have all become so spoiled with technology.

I remember the weight of those old black telephones of yesteryear. I was 3 y/o when we had one,and could hardly lift that ole thing off the cradle.
Ahhhhh.... memories!

[Mrs. Ducky]

My great grandmother still has one of those. I think it's fun to dial the numbers.

[vze3t9q9]

I don't have a cordless or a cell. I still have a corded phone. Works find with me. I don't call many people or do they call me. I do remember the heavy black phones of yesteryear. I think they were made more of metal. Now all plastic

[Michael [hXc]]

my friend has a rotary dial phone in his kitchen and it is the main phone they use. it's fun to dial the numbers so i make up excuses to call people so i can dial the numbers

[east215]

We had rotary phones too. I remember before the breakup of A.T.&T. in 1984, if you moved the phones stayed because they were screwed into the wall. It was an old person that owned the house and she had three phones. A square yellow wall phone in the kitchen, a pink Princess phone with a lighted dial in the master bedroom, and an extremely old black table-top dial phone in the hall. It was one of those heavy metal phones that were coated with some sort of a black plastic, as opposed to the table phones that were actually made out of plastic. I remember my Dad cut the wire from the wall when he found out that New York Telephone was taking the old phones for parts and then melting them down. He said their wasn't a phone there when we moved in (only time I ever knew him to lie), and would they come out a put in a green trimline phone (dial - of course). I still have that old black phone now and use it in my living room. Great conversation piece. I have Queen Anne furniture in Mohagany and it really suits the room. If you turn over any of those old phones, they're stamped with the date of manufacture (mine is 5/46 - April 1946). All my other phones are cordless. My Dad finally broke down and got touch-tone phones in 1991. Now he's got 3 cordless phones, an answering machine, fax, cell, etc. and all the calling features.

[1954Boomer]

Great memories, Comet97!

Growing up, we had a black wall phone in the kitchen. I remember we got that phone back in 1964, when I was 10. In fact, we only had that ONE phone until my parents bought their first home, which was in 1971. And it wasn't until '71 that we finally got TWO phones: a wall phone, and one of those small nightstand phones. Lol!

[vze3t9q9]

YOu discuss how many telephones we have. My family only had one television til 1981. Now my house has 6

[rich2]

I grew up in a large city and many people I knew were still using them in the 70's and 80's.

[1954Boomer]

We only had one phone in the house when I was growing up...a black kitchen wall phone, similar to the one in June's kitchen in style, but not in color. Unfortunately, today old rotary phones simply wouldn't work with most businesses, since all require a touch tone phone to work in order to navigate through the prompts.

[liane49]

Originally Posted by UncleBilly

I grew up with one of those rotary dial wall phones. In fact, it is still on the wall at my mother's house. We had a pantry/storage room off the kitchen and I remember stretching the cord into there to talk so I could have privacy. Now with cordless handsets you can go in any room to have conversations! I guess we have all become so spoiled with technology.

You must be really young because I grew up with those phones. We never thought they were so bad. Hek, it's all we knew.

[mrbreezeet1]

Yeah, and I remember the phone company owned the phone, and if you wired another phone up with out the ringer, They didn't know you had it.
You could buy old ones at Olsen's.

[robyrob]

rotary phones were still pretty common in the 70's and early 80's, and cordless phones really only became common in the mid 80's and they were pretty crappy with horrible antennas.