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Looking at that picture, l guess 1950s rotary dial phones must also be making a comeback.
Those phones weren't all bad. You didn't have to worry about dropping a signal or running out of battery. Party lines weren't all that fun. You sometimes had to wait for the phone and nosy neighbors would listen in to conversations.
Looking at that picture, l guess 1950s rotary dial phones must also be making a comeback.
When I was there in 1996, the bar on the top floor of the Buckhorn Exchange restaurant in Denver had a very old phone booth, with seat, light, and fan, and a phone that had the mouthpiece attached to the wall unit, with separate earpiece. The phone had been converted to touch-tone, but it was just enough of a retrofit to replace the rotary mechanism. They also had the Denver phone book on a cool cast-iron stand, so I looked up the family of a guy from the area that I'd met when I went to school in Boulder and gave them a call.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's still there. I sure hope it is.
When I was there in 1996, the bar on the top floor of the Buckhorn Exchange restaurant in Denver had a very old phone booth, with seat, light, and fan, and a phone that had the mouthpiece attached to the wall unit, with separate earpiece. The phone had been converted to touch-tone, but it was just enough of a retrofit to replace the rotary mechanism. They also had the Denver phone book on a cool cast-iron stand, so I looked up the family of a guy from the area that I'd met when I went to school in Boulder and gave them a call.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's still there. I sure hope it is.
LOL I had to do a Google Image search for that. I hate to tell you but that phone is just some modern reproduction, possibly using some antique parts. A phone in that design would have been pre-direct dial days. So it would have had to have a hand crank on the right side to signal the operator. I don't see any indication in the pictures that there was ever a crank on the side of that phone. Somebody did do a good job putting it all together though.
LOL I had to do a Google Image search for that. I hate to tell you but that phone is just some modern reproduction, possibly using some antique parts. A phone in that design would have been pre-direct dial days. So it would have had to have a hand crank on the right side to signal the operator. I don't see any indication in the pictures that there was ever a crank on the side of that phone. Somebody did do a good job putting it all together though.
Thanks for the information. It was still cool to get a chance to use a phone like that in a real phone booth.
Lots of large offices have "phone booths" in them.
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