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Toots711 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:18:34 GMT

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candys mine — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:26:46 GMT

WHAT A DASHBOARD! Bells and whistles Galore! Wonder what car that is?

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lgfan — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:44:37 GMT

It must have been an expensive phone. When I was a kid I never saw any cars with that phone.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:40:57 GMT

Texting would have been very tricky.

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Nonametoday — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:47:15 GMT

@Toots711 wrote:

@Toots711

I had a friend with one of those c.1965. He also had a yacht and compared to today's yachts, it was so antiquated but at the time was really a big deal. Time changes and so do luxuries.

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fthunt — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:19:20 GMT

Snow covered hills but the lady has no coat.

Not a believer - an engineer's dream car

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Happy2BHere — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:27:26 GMT

Reminds me of Perry Mason episodes with Paul Drake on his car phone

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songbird — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:08:24 GMT

Police cars had phones in the 1930's. They were radiotelephones. First one way and then later in the 1930's two way.

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foxywoods — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:29:04 GMT

car - cellular phones - existed in the early '70s. the cell towers were antenna poles, by the shoulders of highways. we being non geeks often wondered what these poles were. they were about 10ft in height and looked like a tall fishing pole.

we were adventurous kids and hitch-hiked a lot. one man who gave use a ride had a corded push button phone in his car.

picture phones were introduced by Bell Labs in '64. they were too costly at the time to generate interest.

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foxywoods — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:01:08 GMT

@monicakm wrote:
@foxywoods

I lived in an off campus college house with a guy who had a cell phone. This was 1977. The phone was huge and was kept in a bag. Silly me, I thought that was the beginning of car phones. He was from Houston

@monicakm maybe he had a prototype of a cell, they were around, but the Motorola DynaTac 8000x or "Brick" was approved by FCC Sept 21 1983.

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DottieBlue — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:48:06 GMT

...and look at how large the steering wheel is!

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Elodie2 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:11:48 GMT

It's fun and interesting seeing those old ads. My husband thinks the car is a '64 Cadillac.

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Tinkrbl44 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:13:47 GMT

Looks like this was before seatbelts were the law.

I just looked it up ... seatbelts were mandatory in 1968.

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Nonametoday — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:23:15 GMT

@monicakm wrote:
@foxywoods

I lived in an off campus college house with a guy who had a cell phone. This was 1977. The phone was huge and was kept in a bag. Silly me, I thought that was the beginning of car phones. He was from Houston

@monicakm @foxwoods

My friend who had the phone called it a mobile phone. He never called it cell phone and I don't think they work on the same principle. His looked more like the land lines. I recall that I when I wanted to reach him, I had to call an operator and give them a special number to call so it didn't cos tme. I couldn't just dial the number even if I wanted to pay for the call. I don't recall him using it on the yacht. That was a long time ago. He had a European car. It had a wooden dash and leather upholstery. Pretty fancy for those days. I was young and impressed with material things at that time.

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qualitygal — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:14:25 GMT

I never saw that before. Yes, I was around then.

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Nonametoday — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:57:42 GMT

@monicakm wrote:
@foxywoods

I lived in an off campus college house with a guy who had a cell phone. This was 1977. The phone was huge and was kept in a bag. Silly me, I thought that was the beginning of car phones. He was from Houston

@monicakm @foxywoods

We had bag phones. I don't recall exactly when it was, probably in the 1980s-90s.

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gardenman — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:13:33 GMT

The first "mainstream" car phones came along in 1946 from Illinois Bell Telephone Company. They had all of three (possibly six) channels so no more than that number of people could use it at once. In 1964 the "Improved Mobile Telephone Service" came along. That hung around until the 1980s and allowed more users. Both systems were on the pricey side so not many people used them.

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lynnie61 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:36:32 GMT

Boyfriend had a Motorola bag phone. Late 80's. It was bigger than my purse. It was expensive to use.

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Carmie — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:03:12 GMT

I had a phone installed in my car in 1983. Not many people had them back then.

I had no idea they were even a thing in the 60's.

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Nonametoday — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:48:38 GMT

@monicakm wrote:
@Nonametoday

I can still be impressed with material things. It's just harder and few and far between. This was my first car. A 1959 (I think) VW Karmaan Ghia. It was the closest model dad could find in the states that was like the one he had in Germany when he met mom. I take that back. It wasn't my first car. It was the one I learned to drive in. One week before my 16th birthday, a feed truck ran me off the road and I rolled it several times That car was so much fun to drive! Poor dad. Ours wasn't a convertible.

@monicakm

My bestie from first grade until she passed in 2006 owned a Karmaan Ghia, and I believe it was the first car she purchased. She had one her parents gave her for high school garduation, and a Mercedes whens he was married, but she divorced him. Then she had a KG,that she purchased. An attorney, she worked for the DOJ. That almost makes me sad because the car "looks like her." She had been living in Germany (may have purchased it there). She had it in November 1970 when she came to visit after she had been living abroad, had divorced her husband and had bought this car for self. She died of lung cancer, Florida.

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