tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978925481748522797.post3617002661832805518..comments2024-03-25T13:25:19.911-05:00Comments on My Pretty Baby Cried She Was a Bird: Western Electric Color Telephones (1954)Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16842611749073935723noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978925481748522797.post-17159681819311216332014-02-22T22:00:08.529-06:002014-02-22T22:00:08.529-06:00I reading your blog this blog is amazing & you...I reading your blog this blog is amazing & your blog about Roof repairs telephone is excellent thanks for sharing this interesting blog. <a href="http://www.onsalenetworks.com/" rel="nofollow">houston telephone systems</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05488146456967556240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978925481748522797.post-51672506542039701352012-04-12T17:23:02.676-05:002012-04-12T17:23:02.676-05:00Hey! Until '92 I lived out in BFE, Missouri. W...Hey! Until '92 I lived out in BFE, Missouri. We actually had to lift the receiver, dial the number we wanted and then let the operator know OUR phone number so that we could be billed. We had a rotary dial, yellow phone exactly like the one pictured. When we moved to town, we got a touch tone and joined the 60's revolution.<br />Speaking of the naughty pleasures of listening in...my best girlfriend has a clothing store next to the local bank. Many's the time we listened in to the purient phone conversations the tellers had with their boyfriends over the bank's hand sets. (Those 90's cordless jobs)Somehow the signal bled over and we could hear every detail. I would wander over to buy a roll of quarters and try to match the teller with the debauchery. Sometimes the teller would stare unblinkingly into my eyes and it made me wonder...Can they hear what WE say?Mrs.Leaphearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07903237273139458385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978925481748522797.post-72541930452419002452012-04-12T16:48:16.287-05:002012-04-12T16:48:16.287-05:00this is so cool! you always have VERY intresting b...this is so cool! you always have VERY intresting blog posts. what i wouldnt give for a yellow one!! yellow is my favorite color so im positivley swooning!<br />thanks LisaBethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10940320260094301593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978925481748522797.post-50544367624077987882012-04-12T15:48:58.332-05:002012-04-12T15:48:58.332-05:00This reminded me of the 'Once Upon a Honeymoon...This reminded me of the 'Once Upon a Honeymoon' short from MST3K! It's by Bell Telephone and all centers around promoting colour phones!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfYd9scVU20" rel="nofollow">Once Upon A Honeymoon</a>Dolly the Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05474700945219253368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978925481748522797.post-83065342122669192012-04-12T15:14:44.922-05:002012-04-12T15:14:44.922-05:00Hahahaha! You must be reading my mind or followed...Hahahaha! You must be reading my mind or followed me around for a spell! I was on the hunt to get a rotary dial desktop phone. We always had a kitchen wall phone when I was growing up in yellow, that we rented too until we could buy it. I always wanted a desktop. So, my husband had his parents send me one for a Christmas present!!!! It is is our den on our giant old oak desk with a typewriter door/drawer. Then I got to thinking I need a wall phone for our basement line-in case we lose power line. I got a shiny black one at the same estate sale with the old diplomas!!! My husband hung it up and now scares the daylights out of me every time it rings through the floor!!! Hahahaha! I would really love a princess phone in baby blue though! That would go in my bedroom. Talking on them is really grounding. You can't wander and multi task or get a crooked neck. They really make you enjoy talking on the phone again, like it was when a house only had one device and shared a party line! I am old enough to remember those. There was something very naughty about picking p the receiver and hearing someone talking on the other side, if only for a moment!Vivianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02352425223803741970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1978925481748522797.post-27887670390272091912012-04-12T13:04:43.458-05:002012-04-12T13:04:43.458-05:00Damn, yo! That two toned one is ooowhee! That'...Damn, yo! That two toned one is ooowhee! That's so funny about your grandmother. I remember when people rented phones. My Mom used to pay our phone bill in person and I'd always go with her. To get to the counter, you had to walk through this huge display room of phones. They all had little signs in front of them with how much they were to rent - or to out-and-out buy (which was crazy expensive). I can remember running my hands over all of the receivers and dialing the dials. And wow, they had the Bicentennial phone. The one that's red, white and blue and on a stand. That thing was SO cool! They also had the Mickey Mouse phone where he held the receiver. Also very cool.<br /><br />You MUST wrangle that poster from your Dad. We don't have a land line anymore either and got rid of it just because of all of the annoying sales calls. The Mister has an old timey phone receiver that he hooks up to his cellphone.Eartha Kitschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08189308677139650882noreply@blogger.com