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I do feel the older corded Ma Bell telephones had a much better voice sound quality that made phone conversations much more intimate and immediate feeling.
The old Ma Bell phones were analog. These days, even your home landline is digital Voice Over IP (VOIP). Some people feel that analog is "warmer" and "fuller" sound than digital. Which is why some audiophiles prefer vinyl records (analog) is better than MP4, etc. (digital).
The voice quality and overall quality of sound is very much better on landlines - and the enjoyment of lengthy or romantic or interesting or between friends/lovers phone calls on landlines is radically better.
No breaking up, no static, no sounding far away with landlines.
I have a landline - will keep it forever or as long as possible.
Landline has come practically free with Comcast-Xfinity cable for many years. Even if it did not, I would most likely still have one.
I can’t ever remember twisting a phone cord or ever thinking it romantic lol!
A number of things, of what we take from TV and movies, and how we interpret it. I remember an episode of The Magician where Max (Keene Curtis) snatches up the phone while playing chess, says how it is an inconvenient time of night, and then does Anthony Blake business. After the phone call, he turns to the beautiful brunette on the other side of the board and tells her it is her move (or so I recall, from 50 years ago).......and I was thinking, when I grow up, I wanted such a phone arrangement around my house.
OF COURSE, that was back during my tender age before I knew that scene wasn't just about playing chess.
I remember back then in the 70s when they showed all the fancy set ups one could buy so they could have there phone, such as being hidden in a nice wood (looking) box.
Or an episode of Charlie's Angels where Kelly (J. Smith) is kidnapped, they are calling like mad to find her, her kidnapper says her phone rings a lot, and Kelly says she has a lot of friends. As someone with not a lot of friends, I yearned for a day like that. OF COURSE, now the demons have taken it the other way, calling us endlessly about our car warranties, and abused our wishes.
Or an episode in 2nd generation Mission Impossible, Church Bells in Bogata, where the son of the villain is telling the afraid of flying in small planes Shannon that she sounds like an actress who forgot to turn on her answering machine before she left.......and, once again, I took that little trick to heart. OF COURSE, these days with especially "The Governor's going to call! THE GOVERNOR'S GOING TO CALL!", I leave the answering machine on all the time to field calls.
The scenes we see from Madison Avenue and the like that hit us during some impressionable times.
I hate phones of any type and always thought that stuff like letters or emails (longer written things) were better than a phone call. I don’t think cordless did anything one way or another since I find any phone calls atrocious. I do think video calls are better than audio calls.
The romance is not the kind most people first associate with that word. At least, not to me.
I feel its emotional allure in the fact that someone is talking with me, live and in real time, through wires that extend a very long distance. Possibly on the other side of this planet.
It is similar to how seeing a beautiful moon in the sky makes missing a far-away person feel not so painful, knowing that they, too, can see it (if not TOO far away in time zones!).
My husband was working in Mexico and, then, Colombia, while I was home during a “99-year blizzard.” Roads were not plowed for almost a week, power out most of that time, drifts higher than the roof...yet the landline phone worked, mostly. We were talking one night on a bad connection—but still a connection—when the line went dead in mid-sentence. It suddenly felt like I had dropped down a long, deep, black hole with nothing around.
That feeling passed, but I still remember the sense of abrupt desolation. The landline, and by extension the phone cord, was like an umbilical cord. And cellular phones just don’t give that feeling of a physical connection.
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