“Jerry, how old are you?”

Me: this was my high school - with the extra long cord that stretched to a different room. 😂

I'm not that old 😉 but I remember all these phones as a kid! call the operator and they were connecting you the other place. My grandfather had one of them at home.

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Oh nice! I was pretty young (and smoked way too much since then 😅)

You had to turn the handle on the side of the phone it was generating some voltage so the other side started ringing and they pick up the phone. It was before we get the rotary dial phone

We had a party line as a kid for a bit. Basically shared the same line with the neighbors (my uncle). Was weird, we could call each other somehow. Not sure how that worked

glad i'm not the only one that old LOL!! 😁 
below the first ones our family had...yeah we liked green haha!! 🤣 
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yeah orange was a super popular color for those ones too back in the days...i remember a friend had that one too!! 👍

If I remeber correctly,  our phone was orange.  Exactly same rotary phone but in orange

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You are too young man! Touch dial phones came out way later in my time

Same - my grandparents had these.

We had the *fancy* phone with touch tone dialing instead of rotary. 😜

And the rush to the phone to pick it up first 😂

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