Strange Relic
 

I saw this today in Dana Point, I don't know if I have seen any others for quite a while.

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Once upon a time a 1/4 stick of dynamite fit nicely into the coin slots in those things.

:confused: What iz it? :confused: Can it send text messages?

I have one:D

sure, but does it run?

When the garage is finished, I'm going to get a friend to hook it up:D

I'm all for keeping a few of those around...I don't have a cell phone, am I the only one?

Yes.

Ian

The only person I have heard of over 12.

Does this look familiar?

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Had my 8y.o in the BMW 635 the other day (1989 model). It has the original tape deck.
She pulled the tape out and asked "Dad, what's this?" I said "It's a tape, to play music" She looked puzzled and, turning it over, said "What, like a CD?"

When my daughter was very young she wanted to know how I fit those "big black CD's" into the player. Gawd were getting old.

there are still a few in my neighborhood. the drug dealers love them.

i would never use one without dipping the receiver in a bucket of bactine.

You're not alone, I've no need for one. I have a work issued BlackBerry, but it stays in my desk drawer at work. Honestly I don't want people calling me, ever.

Before cells & the Internet, pay phones used to be an essential tool for road warriors. First stop in a new town was a pay phone with yellow pages - hotels were best for an intact set. Then you would discretely tear out the applicable pages for your particular business so you knew who you had to visit. Sometimes another b*stard had beaten you to it & the pages were gone . . .

Ian

Saw one last week in San Diego. One of the guys I was with who was carrying 2 black berries spotted it. I bet they'll make somewhat of a comeback if people *really* tightened their belts. There must be warehouses full of them.

Racerbvd has them all in his place.

We have a rotary phone in our home. It's great watching people who've never seen one try to figure it out.

I seem to recall that one by one, we knuckleheads, would use the payphone to dial O, tell the operator we got a busy signal, and didn't get our dime back. A few weeks later, a check made out in our names, for $.10 would arrive at our homes. It was a rite of passage to becoming a teenager and I think we were bored. lol

Things were slow in the acres.

We used to just blow them up and take all the dimes.

OK, don't laugh, but I do know where there is a field with a bunch of old phone booths, the aluminum ones:D He use to sell em for $50 a pop.

A complete working booth with lights in the corner of the garage would be cool.

Our local Elks lodge still has the original wooden phone booth from the 20's, when the building was constructed. Now the guys take their cell phones in to make calls away from the barroom noise.

I've been wanting one of those myselve:D Very cool..

Are you an elk? Is it true that the secret elk signal is to put your thumbs on your temples with your fingers fanned out like elk horns? Cuz if it is, its not very secret anymore.

Do you still get 50 cent beers?

A friend of my dads had one of those. He backed up to it one night in his bagged Datsun and threw a chain around it and drove away....

Me too, a lighted one he he....:)

Those old aluminum and glass urinals were really cool.

Is there any way to distinguish the urinal version from the vomitorium?

got dropped off for a haircut. i would call for the ride back home. i forgot my cell, and wandered about like a fool looking for one of those ancient devices. i even had quarters! i never found one downtown Walnut Creek. the barber ended up lending me his cell.

LOL...the wall phone in our kitchen is rotary dial...:D

Same here and young kids marvel at the thing. Mine is old enough to have a fabric covered cord on it and that just blows them away.

Joe A

We have a rotary phone...During the blackout in NYC (2004 I think?) It was the only way to make a phone call. Since all modern phones need to be plugged into an outlet in order to get a dial tone.

But since we actually no longer have a 'land line' it's mostly decorative.

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I haven't been "dropped off" anywhere since I was 15!

probably because you have a decent supply of parking spaces where you live?

Multi-tasking!

I have that model in green. Anyone top that? Only a pink Princess could.

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