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[JoyFilled Warrior]

Those phone cords were the darnest things to untangle.  The headset could be spinning and spinning to straighten the cord out.  You'd think you fixed it.  Nope! 

@Tinkrbl44   Great topic!  

I think Doris Day had a movie where she shared a Party Line was busy Playboy Rock Hudson.  They were in each others hair all the time.  Add Thelma Ritter and it was a hoot!

(added)     "Pillow Talk"  (1959) 

                                       (ref:  Wikipedia)

[Starpolisher]

I  still have one in my kitchen. It's  40 years old! I kept it because we do sometimes use the cork board. It also has a place behind the cork board to keep the old big phone book. It's not connected because we use cordless phones. We still have a landline. I've had people visit with their grandkids and the kids say, "What's that?"😅 I keep the cord up over the top but I took it down for the picture!😂☎️📞

[foxywoods]

 family moved into  our childhood  home in 1960, there was a black,  sturdy rotary wall phone hardwired into the kitchen wall.  that receiver weighed like 3 lbs.!   the original cord was replaced by a phone co. guy because the original cord was frayed by me in the '70s talking to freinds and boyfreinds. i stretched  the cord to the bathroom. with the longer cord, i could stretch out the door to the back stoop!!  still the old old cords held up w/o tangles. my great depression era parents were so afraid the spend an extra cent.   maybe 1996 when they gave up the hardwire and went with modular jack - still in the kitchen, on the wall plate - and - still rotary!!  mom finally switched to touch tone in the late '90s. such a difficult decison for Mom, but tech demanded the changes as they aged and needed medical services.

[Gorgf]

My parents had  a built in  recessed shelf to house that corded phone. 

I still have a land line for $2O A month which screens my spam calls better than my Cell included in my TV/Internet package. It still is my go to registered number with my clinic and some businesses The old wall jack is still an eyesore though, on my wall. My cordless phones now are on a monitor. My lines were old that I  had with a different phone company  they crackled. I have three  cordless phones in the house and a cell. More emergency access.

In the 50s my Grandparents lived in a small town. They still had a switchboard so the phone did not  even have a dial. I remember she said to  always say Please to the operator when you asked her to put a four didget number through. 

[StarlightTwinkle]

 Yes I  sure do. Our phone cord was always stretched out and sometimes would replace it when it got too bad lol. 

[sunshine45]

during the 1970s, but they didnt hang on the wall......they were on the counter or on tables.

[781Florist]

I sure do remember and very much miss my rust colored wall phone like the model pictured.

I also had the ultra long cord that made it easy to go all around two rooms while talking.

Once in a while the cord did sort of tangle.  I had a second floor deck and I would unplug the cord from the base, then let the receiver fall as far as it would go off the deck (holding on to the other end of the cord.) 

It would spin back and forth crazily for a few seconds and then come to rest completely untangled and good as new!

The posters who commented on how much better the 

sound was compared to cell phones is absolutely right.

[Teddixat]

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.

[AngelPuppy1]

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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!  

[wagirl]

@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---