Who of you have never used a rotary phone?

fordman84 said:
haha, same here. And my grandmothers had a handset that had a volume wheel on the underside of the where you hold it. She had that cranked up too. So you would pick it up and the dial tone (another thing kids these days don't know of) would deafen you.
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yep, same deal with my great-grandma's :dhd: the few times i talked on that phone i had to hold it a good inch or so away from my ear
 
Inquisitor said:
How many can say they used one of these?

Me? Not to make an actual phone call.

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My grandparents had the old one they grew up with on the wall. It wasn't connected, just a look at. I was amazed how freaking heavy the ear piece was. I think it was solid lead.

When they passed I wanted that and was going to fix it up. But the years of not dusting the inside were not kind to it and it basically crumbled when we took it down. That sucked.
 
Kburjr said:
Or have never driven a manual transmission?

Or have watched a Black and White TV?
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Until I purchased my Germans with their dual clutch transmissions I'd always had a manual.

Grew up with bi-colour TVs. My Dad bought a colour TV in 1968. Prior to that I had to go to my grandparents' places to see hockey in colour. His Dad owned the 2nd TV in town, little tiny picture screen with a huge box around it. They actually had a big (15"!!) magnifying lens they could place in front of the TV.

And yup, even had one of those vacuum tube TVs catch fire! Scared the fuck out of this 5 year old.

And I still have a rotary phone in my work shop. Rings a real bell. And you can take calls on it. Can't phone out on it though.
 
I have used an old crank telephone though. Not for calling anyone, but for stunning minnows so they’d be easy to catch to use for bait
 
CorpRebel said:
My parents bough a new beige 1963 Plymouth 9 passenger station wagon with a 170 hp slant-6. Had the pushbuttons on left side of steering wheel. It also had a fold-up back seat facing the rear so us kids could look out the rear window and make faces and gestures at the cars behind us! :dhd:

Something like this one, only with stock hubcaps ... :heh:

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I thought it was Plymouth that had those. Wasn't sure so didn't mentioned. It was about 62 or 63. My father borrowed a co workers car. The owner brought the car over and left it. We got in it later to go somewhere. Dad didn't know how to use the damn thing. He had to call the owner to find out how to put the thing in gear.
 
Our kitchen TV was black and white when I was a kid.

Had one rotary phone, with a party line. That thing got pushed to the barn eventually. Might still be out there. Idk.

Learned to drive on a Plymouth Horizon stick.

But I’ve never owned any of em.
 
CorpRebel said:
My parents bough a new beige 1963 Plymouth 9 passenger station wagon with a 170 hp slant-6. Had the pushbuttons on left side of steering wheel. It also had a fold-up back seat facing the rear so us kids could look out the rear window and make faces and gestures at the cars behind us! :dhd:

Something like this one, only with stock hubcaps ... :heh:

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Did it have the square(ish) steering wheel too?

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hell, my current vehicle is a stick shift ('18 tacoma)
 
A first for me. Perfect clear skies allowed for excellent viewing of a transit of the ISS. I remember John Glenn's first trip
 
Chrysler engineers musta been getting stoned before work.

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There was a long period of time where all TV was in color, but B&W was the only affordable TVs.

Very similar to when TV went HD, but HDTV was costly. But that was a quick transition.

so as a kid I was given my own TV for my bedroom. Sounded great, but it was Black and White, really small, and you had to use dials to change the channel. So fuck that! My TV was rarely used.
 
We had a rotary phone in the house growing up until the fancy push-button ones came along. And like some of you, my grandma had one until the day she died (2009).

I learned to drive with a stick. A 1984 Subaru GL, then a chevette, then a ‘77 Ford Courier, then a 1986 Ford Ranger.

And Yes, I had a b&w tv in my room growing up. I think my laptop screen is bigger than what I had.
 
fordman84 said:
Done all three of those.

BONUS: Learned to drive a manual by a three-on-the-tree.
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same - learned on my grandpa's 3-tree,
with the slant-six under the hood -
 
Dang, y'all had a nostalgia thread without me??

We had a rotary phone, road cone orange with the 40 foot cord. Also had a party line for the first couple years I can remember. The first push button phone we had, it STILL had to use the rotors to dial; you'd finish pushing all your buttons and you'd hear the "click-click-click-click-click"

Learned to drive stick on a flatbed when I was 16, not long after that I bought my brother's Dakota 5-speed. Big fun.

First couple of TVs I remember were black and white. I was probably 6-7 years old before we got a color one
 
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