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[lgfan]

They came in rotary and push button models.

[sunshine 919]

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@tansy wrote:

I think ours was beige. It was on my mother's bedside table.

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I had the blue one 

[Starpolisher]

My grandmother had a pink one in her bedroom. We only had one phone. It was on the kitchen wall. It was beige, like @DREAMON 's  picture.

Then in high school, my dad let my sister and I have a wall phone in our room. But like, @docsgirl , he later had it removed because my sister and I were on it so much!😅

I still have this on my kitchen wall. It's not hooked up but I just like it. We do use the cork board and it has a space to hold the phonebook(empty now)🤗

[lynnie61]

I did not have a princess phone, but I had a blue push button in the receiver.  It was in my room but I wasn't allowed on it all the time.  I was 13 and sooooo happy.  Mine was powder blue though.

[CrazyTimes]

My sisters and I had a Princess phone in the bedroom we shared. Don't remember the color. Only got it because my eldest sister was dating a guy who worked at South Central Bell. Our other phone was on a small table in the corner of our dining room. Both were rotary phones with coil cords. 

[Enufstuff]

@Toots711 @lgfan @ Kachina624 @ fthunt @luvmybeetle @Biftu @Teddixat 

             I have a vintage pink rotary dial Princess phone in my bedroom, on the table next to my bed and I do use it. My son gave it to me for my birthday several years ago. I love it.

 The rotary dial does light up as a night light.

 It is just like the pink one that I had in my bedroom, when I was thirteen.

[granddi]

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@We rescue cats wrote:

We too had 1 phone - on the wall in the kitchen. My mom and I never had a phone so having that one was pretty special to me!

I remember other special phones, I had one that was in a carved box, and one that was ornate . . . 

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Our dod compromised and let us get a long cord. We could go around the corner and at least sit on the floor. 

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Whe I was a teen, we had one phone in the house, a wall phone in the kitchen.  I always sooooo wanted a pink Princess Phone.  Never got one.

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@Kachina624   @Toots711 

I did get a pink princecss phone, but now I can't remember if it was a rotary dial ....  or push button.  Can't even picture it now!

How weird ...

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Desertdi wrote:

I wasn't allowed to use the telephone until I had a permanent job (with a paycheck) and could pay for my phone calls...

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@Desertdi 

I can totally understand that ... it was the era, in part.

Can you image telling a young person today that they can't have a cell phone until they have a regular paycheck?  Wow.  LOL  

[Desertdi]

@Tinkrbl44 

Even if I had to talk to a classmate about a homework assignment, I had to WALK over to their house to "get advice".     

I figured my mother just wanted to "get rid of me" for an hour...    I guess I didn't know the VALUE OF A DIME!    di