Rotary-dial phones

[pne]

Prompted by seeing Amy playing with an old rotary-dial phone she got from her grandparents, and seeing that she didn't know what to do with the dial (she only picked up the receiver and talked). No wonder, since I doubt she's seen one before, and it's likely she won't be seeing (m)any in the future, either.

(Funny that the little icon for "phone" used in various places is nearly always a rotary-dial one, though!)

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Comments

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

I've actually used a rotary *pay* phone before, which was kinda weird. It was the Boy Scout camp that I went to, and I think I found some information on it that indicated that it had been installed in the early '70s.

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

Oh I have too, but it's been quite a while. They used to have them in my home town, at least until I was in HS when a majority of the rotary dials became pushbuttons. :-)