34/365: Rotary phones
Nov. 3rd, 2008 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valadilenneThe icon is the face I made when I realized I don't have an icon of a rotary phone.
I collect weird phones, and rotarys are a dream come true.
I have an old black Bell bakelite (how alliterative), a white 80's punchbutton, and one shaped like a tall can of Coke with all the buttons on the bottom.
What I would really like is a French phone:
It's stupid for older people to assume that the younger generations don't know what a rotary phone is or what they do. Each number is at a certain point on the dial, and when you pull the dial back, it rotates forward, producing a certain number of "clicks" on the line. That indicates to the phone company what number you're dialing. How is that hard?
They are wicked fun to play with--sometimes I sit and just flick the wheel around like I'm Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's with the little silver telephone dialer.
I collect weird phones, and rotarys are a dream come true.
I have an old black Bell bakelite (how alliterative), a white 80's punchbutton, and one shaped like a tall can of Coke with all the buttons on the bottom.
What I would really like is a French phone:
It's stupid for older people to assume that the younger generations don't know what a rotary phone is or what they do. Each number is at a certain point on the dial, and when you pull the dial back, it rotates forward, producing a certain number of "clicks" on the line. That indicates to the phone company what number you're dialing. How is that hard?
They are wicked fun to play with--sometimes I sit and just flick the wheel around like I'm Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's with the little silver telephone dialer.