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[AngelPuppy1]

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@wagirl wrote:

@AngelPuppy1 -----I would have loved a princess phone and in pink--heaven on earth at age 15 !!--We had a wall phone in the kitchen as I recall --- not much privacy altho there was a glass door from the kitchen to the rest of the house. No phone plug ins anywhere except the kitchen however---

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@wagirl 

Yes, this was basically how our phone was.  Just one and in a central location and no privacy.  I would try to reach the phone in our staircase and hence, the long tangled cord!  My mother didn't like that - she felt you should just talk in the room with everybody else.  It was so truly wonderful to get that pink princess phone for my b-day!  It was given to me by my older sister and I don't think my mom, God bless her, was very happy about it!!!!  After I got my own apartment I purchased this phone that looked like a baby blue old chevy and when it rang, the headlights lit up and the ringer was a car horn!  I just loved that phone!!! 

[wagirl]

@AngelPuppy1 ---OMG!!! I remember that phone too!!  Phones were starting to be fun in those days, you know?

[Linda0215]

We had one of those in the upstairs hallway on a console table.  But the cord never looked like that.  My mother would have brained us.

[AngelPuppy1]

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@wagirl wrote:

@AngelPuppy1 ---OMG!!! I remember that phone too!!  Phones were starting to be fun in those days, you know?

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@wagirl 

Yes, they were!  I miss those days!  Even the phone stores at the time had some interesting ones.  Of course, our main phone when I lived at home was the basic old black phone!  

[Kitty Galore]

yes definitely!   I can remember my parents getting that extra long cord which I was thrilled with as a teenager I could go in the stairway to talk in private with my boyfriend or friends and no one could listen in !!  We were always untangling that cord as it got all out of shape not as bad as this one though lol 😂 

[Kitty Galore]

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@wagirl wrote:

@AngelPuppy1 ---OMG!!! I remember that phone too!!  Phones were starting to be fun in those days, you know?

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@wagirl & @AngelPuppy1   Oh yes the princess phone !   My parents finally agreed to getting it for my room when I was 16 .  I still think of that as one of my favorite bday presents ever !!   My whole bedroom wa shades of pink and that phone was perfect !   Finally privacy !  I would also lock my door as I remember my mother had a habit of walking in pretending to bring something in or to tell me something ,  but I knew it was to eavesdrop 😂 

[Kitty Galore]

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@Teddixat wrote:

the condition of that phone cord probably resulted from walking as far as the cord and stretching it as far could reach for a long time.

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@Teddixat wrote:

the condition of that phone cord probably resulted from walking as far as the cord and stretching it as far could reach for a long time.

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@Teddixat  I know I was always testing on how far I could go !   Anything to get away from the kitchen where everyone was and the phone was.  

[AngelPuppy1]

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@Kitty Galore wrote:

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@wagirl wrote:

@AngelPuppy1 ---OMG!!! I remember that phone too!!  Phones were starting to be fun in those days, you know?

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@wagirl & @AngelPuppy1   Oh yes the princess phone !   My parents finally agreed to getting it for my room when I was 16 .  I still think of that as one of my favorite bday presents ever !!   My whole bedroom wa shades of pink and that phone was perfect !   Finally privacy !  I would also lock my door as I remember my mother had a habit of walking in pretending to bring something in or to tell me something ,  but I knew it was to eavesdrop 😂 

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@Kitty Galore 

Just getting that one small item of freedom was just a huge, huge thing back in the day!  It would be hard for the youngesters of today to understand what that whole thing was about when we talk about finally getting our princess phones, etc!  They have grown up with the Iphone and smart phone thing and so this was not a concept that they could even imagine. 

[cheriere]

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@Estellee wrote:

I will always have a corded phone, if the power goes out I still have phone service.

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Same here.  I learned that lesson the hard way years ago when the electricity went out.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@AngelPuppy1 wrote:

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@wagirl wrote:

I remember the princess phone but not the tangled phone cord.

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@wagirl 

Well, the curly tangled cord came first!  When I was sixteen I asked for a pink princess phone and got it!  I was so happy!  My very own phone and no more curly, tangled cords!  

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@AngelPuppy1 

Me, too!   Thinking back, my parents were pretty conservative, and I'm now suprised they actually let me have a phone at 16!  LOL