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[itsmagic]

That is too funny!

[circles]

needs to be much bigger for these old eyes to see and these arthritic fingers to dial...lol

[bri20]

Does it have caller ID?

[spent2much]

Very cute!!!

[Toppers]

How clever! 

Bring back the rotary dial...Just kidding! 

It always seemed like it took like forever to dial, since you had to wait for it to do it's semi-circular rotation when you were dialing it. 

The last time that I had a rotary phone was about 32 years ago.

It was a Trimline phone, and if I recall properly, you could switch it between pulse dialing and tone dialing, so that it could dial like a push-button phone. That was a cool feature with it, back then. 

[SaRina]

Oh, I'd love one like that!  I still have a black rotary phone....  in the closet.  It brings me back to the day when we had exchanges in the city -- the first two numbers were the first two letters in the exchange, like Ingersoll 2-5555 was IN2-5555.  That's how we'd give our phone number. Eventually, they switched to the corresponding numbers.

Which reminds me of an "All in the Family" episode where Edith started dialing a phone number from her phone book.  She said, "MU7-5555" (exchange Murray Hill), then quickly slammed down the phone back in the receiver and said, "Oh.  They're using numbers now!" and dialed again, reciting, "687-5555."  lol

[Mz iMac]

Too funny.

My brother has a Princess rotary phone which he uses when there is a power outage. 

[SaRina]

I confess.  We have a blush colored Princess rotary as the extension in the bedroom.

At least blush is in style now.  :-D

[RedTop]

Exactly what it would take to get my 82 year old mother to use a cell phone!