Age verification, I know how to use one of these and 3278 was the first number I remember for the family phone. #AgeVerification
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jul 11, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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jul 12, 2025, 5:27 am • 1 0 • view
I know what it is, and how to use it, but I’ve never used anything like that🤣 I was over in Canada and they still had payphones in the mall…
jul 12, 2025, 5:09 am • 1 0 • view
What about those party lines 😱
jul 11, 2025, 11:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Secretly listening to grannie and the old lady down the street 😆
jul 11, 2025, 11:30 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 12, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
Yep me too …that’s the coolest green phone. I also remember the number from my childhood 206-357-8336. And I miss phone booths.
jul 12, 2025, 5:25 am • 2 0 • view
Walnut34266 was mine.
jul 12, 2025, 6:11 am • 1 0 • view
My fave was when we had party lines We didn’t have computers then so you found entertainment where you could
jul 12, 2025, 5:01 am • 1 0 • view
I remember when they used letters before the numbers for the area of town you lived in.
jul 12, 2025, 4:28 am • 1 0 • view
Right with you, my number was NOrmandy 38714. I had no idea what Normandy was--I thought everybody's phone number started with NOrmandy.
jul 12, 2025, 5:37 am • 1 0 • view
Haha, it was 7179 for me. (In the Netherlands back then)
jul 11, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
LOVE the color! Cherry8-9029
jul 12, 2025, 12:14 am • 1 0 • view
6364
jul 12, 2025, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
Mine was 1248. And I remember days before dialing when the operator said, “Number, please.”
jul 12, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
4276 ☺️
jul 11, 2025, 10:45 am • 1 0 • view
I'll just go back in time and call you!
jul 11, 2025, 10:52 am • 1 0 • view
We had a black one on the wall.
jul 12, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
They didn't offer colors when we got ours. Black.
jul 12, 2025, 4:53 am • 7 0 • view
Ours was 326!!!
jul 11, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
White Hall 6-6310 Later the change it to 946-6310
jul 12, 2025, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
My grandmother had big black heavy ones. On a party line, when I was a child.
jul 11, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes.
jul 12, 2025, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
547-3373 - My dad was a doctor who did OB GYN - before he got his first beeper, and my oldest brother became a teen and gave the number out to his friends. My dad changed the number to 4805 after a year or so and told us to call our friends, but not have them call us.
jul 12, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
I can beat that. Ours was a black, heavy thing that could also be used as a weapon if necessary. Our phone # was Al (for Alpine) 54669. And it was a party line. (Shared with others.)
jul 12, 2025, 5:33 am • 1 0 • view
I've got that exact phone!
jul 12, 2025, 5:21 am • 2 0 • view
Ours was black and very heavy, 356-7694
jul 11, 2025, 11:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Ours was black also. 596-6091
jul 12, 2025, 12:12 am • 1 0 • view
With a party line
jul 12, 2025, 5:30 am • 1 0 • view
Remember when they made phones that lasted forever? And they were owned by the phone company.
jul 12, 2025, 12:13 am • 2 0 • view
Forever. My parents probably only switched to a wall mounted one in the kitchen because I loved phones and had many styles over the years. That includes a Blackberry, the first-ever digital cellular phone to hit the market.
jul 12, 2025, 5:21 am • 2 0 • view
I remember having to call the operator to make a call.
jul 12, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
Check and check, but it's what the plain black model. This green would have been preferable 😂
jul 12, 2025, 6:18 am • 1 0 • view
Mine was Lockwood 47454. I’m 75.
jul 12, 2025, 5:22 am • 1 0 • view
Ours was 5125!
jul 12, 2025, 5:35 am • 1 0 • view
I'm old enough to know how to bypass the lock that my mum put on the dial and still make a call.
jul 11, 2025, 9:17 am • 4 0 • view
There were locks???
jul 11, 2025, 9:23 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, it stopped the dial going around! You got around it by tapping the black levers (the "hang up" thingys) under the handset. Like a primitive mouse code - 7 taps = number 7, pause, next number. No idea how I figured it out.
jul 11, 2025, 10:21 am • 6 0 • view
Long ago in college some kids knew how to make a long distance connection on a pay phone without paying for it by using a pitch pipe or by whistling at just the right frequency.
jul 12, 2025, 5:58 am • 2 0 • view
Clever!!
jul 12, 2025, 7:30 am • 0 0 • view
Oh! Wow... I guess the only person I wanted to talk to was my Nanna... rest of my friends I just went out and played with.
jul 11, 2025, 10:23 am • 1 0 • view
I spent HOURS on the phone to my mate Debbie, we used to listen to the top 40 together as it was life or death whether Spandau beat Duran to the top 😄 My poor mum's phone bill.
jul 11, 2025, 10:25 am • 6 0 • view
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jul 11, 2025, 10:28 am • 2 0 • view
I remember one of my friends had a lot of 8s and 9s and 0s in his number and I always kinda hated phoning him.
jul 12, 2025, 3:37 am • 4 0 • view
Owen6 0995
jul 11, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Age verification, I remember having to redial the whole number several times after fumbling the final "digit", LOL
jul 11, 2025, 1:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh yes... when the number was above 7 it was a struggle for small kids to turn it that far!
jul 11, 2025, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
As a kid, we had a “party line” with a house up the road, so there was a large button you had to press on top of the phone, to claim the line if it wasn’t in use…
jul 11, 2025, 9:23 am • 2 0 • view
Oh! I've never heard of that!
jul 11, 2025, 9:24 am • 0 0 • view
Already had a 7 digit phone # when I was a kid. BRunswick 8-5981. My mom would call grandma for us, so all I remember is DIckson
jul 11, 2025, 11:26 pm • 1 0 • view
24276.
jul 12, 2025, 5:12 am • 1 0 • view
Shouldn’t you be taking a nap?
jul 12, 2025, 4:23 am • 3 0 • view
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jul 12, 2025, 5:16 am • 1 0 • view
Our phone number was 431
jul 11, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
after this first model ( ours was black) we had a “princess” phone!
jul 11, 2025, 10:02 pm • 5 0 • view
Not sure I know that a princess phone looks like?
jul 11, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
about eight inches long, rectangular basically, with the hand held speaker and dial separated from the base to make a call….They came in colors and my mother had a pink one in her bedroom where our phone lived( to match her decorating color theme!)
jul 11, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
This? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes...
jul 11, 2025, 10:24 pm • 5 0 • view
and dial was in handle
jul 11, 2025, 10:26 pm • 3 0 • view
I think that was called a trim line phone
jul 12, 2025, 5:24 am • 1 0 • view
ours was a “princess” as I still had the box when we closed up my parents house, but I had trimline phones for awhile… my favorite was a really dark green
jul 12, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
We had a process too. I was commenting on the picture with the dial in the handle. That thought that was called a trim line
jul 13, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
that’s like the earliest ones later they were more streamlined
jul 11, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
During the original era of Punk Rock this was known for being a deadly weapon. Contains so much more metal than a touch-tone phone.
jul 12, 2025, 5:33 am • 1 0 • view
I remember
jul 12, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
We grew up with a Party Line.
jul 12, 2025, 5:46 am • 1 0 • view
6701 here
jul 11, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
853-1212 was the number for the date and time
jul 12, 2025, 6:15 am • 1 0 • view
I lived in LA. 1950/60s. Had black rotaries provided by Ma Bell. And "party lines" ( shared phone lines.)
jul 12, 2025, 5:40 am • 1 0 • view
How about when they used letters too. My aunt's number in NY was OR4-5331.
jul 11, 2025, 4:18 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't think we ever got into using letters over here in the UK. They were there on the dial, just never used.
jul 11, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Chalfont St Giles 4444
jul 12, 2025, 5:08 am • 1 0 • view
did U do party lines?
jul 12, 2025, 3:23 am • 1 0 • view
I think party lines were a US thing, never come across one here in the UK. Or perhaps I'm too young? 🤔
jul 12, 2025, 6:23 am • 1 0 • view
I can just remember I am 70
jul 12, 2025, 7:43 am • 1 0 • view
I remember too. I even used a party line!
jul 12, 2025, 6:04 am • 1 0 • view
I bought a wall-mounted one and a red desk one and am going to create a private network for them so my girlfriend and I can chat from our offices (two different floors).
jul 12, 2025, 12:09 am • 2 0 • view
Ours was black cuz you had to pay extra for a color and my dad was cheap. Our number was 3421
jul 12, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
Ooooo ace!
jul 12, 2025, 6:16 am • 1 0 • view
the first one I remember started Hemlock-5-0349 and was gramma's house
jul 11, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Awww yay. Always lovely to remember them by it.
jul 11, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I still use one -- it's red, like Kennedy's Hot Line.
jul 12, 2025, 5:36 am • 1 0 • view
Show my age I remember my home phone number on a black Southwestern Bell desk telephone model and number. And no, Ernestine the phone operator did not answer. (remember Lily Tomlin?)
jul 12, 2025, 4:21 am • 7 0 • view
-9412
jul 12, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
3712986
jul 11, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
4613, Westport, CT 4066, black and hanging on my grandmother’s wall.
jul 12, 2025, 5:28 am • 1 0 • view
Mine was EL6-6355 EL was short for Elgin
jul 11, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
No redial button and no caller identification. We spent many afternoons calling random people and telling them their sex toy order was delayed 🤣🙈
jul 12, 2025, 6:19 am • 1 0 • view
Likewise and likewise. Age verification. Did you have to use those absurdly lengthy numbers like they have now? Must have taken all day to get a call out with that rotary.
jul 12, 2025, 5:20 am • 1 0 • view
ME2-4129 was my first house number. ME stood for Meridian. If you look at a rotary phone, ME translates to 632-4129.
jul 12, 2025, 4:47 am • 1 0 • view
My grandkids love playing with these. I shared with them the satisfaction of slamming the receiver down to hang up on someone when you’re mad, lol. You can’t do that with a cellphone.. 😅😂☎️
jul 12, 2025, 6:10 am • 1 0 • view
When we were able to slam down the receiver to express our anger at the caller, even double slam it 🤣
jul 11, 2025, 11:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I can still hear that sound of dialing and remember my childhood phone number.
jul 11, 2025, 11:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I still remember our telephone number from 1978 and 1984…but routinely forget why I walked approximately 10’ into the kitchen
jul 12, 2025, 12:39 am • 3 0 • view
If you were a New Yorker you remember Murray Hill MU (68) 68x-xxxx.
jul 12, 2025, 5:30 am • 1 0 • view
My Aunts has SU-4 (Sunset) which was in #Ballard, a suburb in #Seattle where the #Scandinavians often lived. Ya sure, ya betcha!
jul 12, 2025, 5:15 am • 1 0 • view
I know these-analog was always sturdier than digital, look at watches 🤷♂️
jul 12, 2025, 6:14 am • 1 0 • view
I’ll see your knowing how to use it and raise you I can’t remember that number 🤪
jul 12, 2025, 5:01 am • 1 0 • view
6177 was mine. But I can also remember 2 longs and a short ad well.
jul 12, 2025, 4:17 am • 1 0 • view
Old phone numbers make perfect PINs
jul 12, 2025, 7:30 am • 1 0 • view
Remembering being told “ its not a toy “
jul 11, 2025, 10:23 pm • 5 0 • view
And yet I played with it so much... Kids these days don't know they are born.
jul 11, 2025, 10:25 pm • 2 0 • view
My grandad had brought two phones from Germany when he fought in ww2 they used to communicate and mess up the nazis orders
jul 11, 2025, 10:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Sounds like a guy we need around today
jul 11, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
My first number was 282
jul 12, 2025, 5:16 am • 2 0 • view
We also had "party lines". 4094 is the first number we had.
jul 12, 2025, 12:29 am • 1 0 • view
Still have one in the home here.
jul 12, 2025, 5:22 am • 1 0 • view
You remember when the first 3 digits were something like TU5-….? Where I lived it was TU(lip)5-
jul 11, 2025, 11:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't think the UK ever used the letters..
jul 12, 2025, 6:14 am • 0 0 • view
Ahhh, sorry, I missed your being from the UK. The time period I am referring to was the late 1950’s early 1960’s.
jul 12, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
No worries, I guess we tended to be a little more diverse in the use of tech in those days. Smaller world these days.
jul 12, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. Used often growing up. It's funny to see younger generations trying to "operate" one.
jul 11, 2025, 11:17 pm • 1 0 • view
!¡!*Mine was 5278*!¡!
jul 12, 2025, 6:34 am • 1 0 • view