If you've got kids, get them this. It's one of the things that got me fascinated about shapes and patterns

If I hear about someone doing those things it's while reading their obit.

“Billy Jean is not my lover and the CHAIR is not my son!” This lived in my brain for far too long! 🤣

Sitting for hours with my fingers on "record/play"

In Australia they're bringing them back

Still preferred to power windows...

Still a favorite!

Tearing those off was tedious.

Someone's fancy with their wall phone. Mamaw had a desk telephone you could use as a weapon.

The slamming down of the handset after a particularly angry/frustrating phone call was very satisfying, touching a screen just doesn't quite cut it 😁

Not only a WALL phone.. but also rotary!

I'm party-line old.

There was nothing more satisfying than slamming the phone down on the receiver to hang up on someone you were arguing with. Cell phones don't work that way. :(

If you live somewhere remote, or if you're elderly, you need a landline and a non-electric phone. A couple of years ago there was major power outage and some areas were without power for four days (yes yes, fellow Quebecers - we also remember the Ice Storm of '98). Mobile towers were jammed, service was spotty to none at all, and there was no way to charge your phone once it died. Discovered cordless phones didn't work because they require electricity. I had thought, "I have a landline. I'll be fine." ooops! :) I can't tell you how happy I was to discover a 1980s rotary phone in the basement. Having a reliable means of communication in times of emergency is vital. :)

We didn't have a land line until very late

Those cords went forever! Todays charge cable lucky to last 5 minutes

Still remember the number from the 60's.

again...most definitely--and loved that the cord would stretch through numerous rooms in the house, you know, for privacy!

Absolutely. Had one phone, and when it rang, you went to wherever this was installed.

I was 12 years old and I remember seeing a Manitoba Telephone truck pull into the farm yard of the family farm. It turned out that the technician was sent out because some of our neighbors were unable to call us to tell Mom about the community potluck and for her to make her fried chicken (boil the meat until it was ready to fall off the bones and roll it into an egg batter of eggs from our hens along with salt, pepper, and paprika).the technician soon found out that our old rotary phone was dead and put in a state-of-the-art touch tone phone.

Cord is too short, most were so long and stretched out you could walk into the other room for privacy

Many of them were on the wall. Just as many were (eventually) desk models. I don't remember ours being on the wall. They sat on a piece of furniture that had a shelf for the phonebook.

I’m “stand and the chair and let the receiver dangle until the cord isn’t twisted” old

Yes again Paulie

Old enough to have been on an 8 party line.

Oh, the untangling!!

Ours was yellow!

The phone company was always twisting up the cord from the other end.

And it was the only one in the house

That just became the wallpaper on my phone.

My grandparents had a cast iron one, that they had rented from the phone company when they moved into their house. 50 years later, my grandma finally got a new phone, because too many places were asking her to push one for this, and two for that. She called the phone company, to let them know she was done renting it, and they had no clue what she was talking about, but because she was still paying the rental fee, they told her they guessed she bought it by now.

Cord not long enough

heavy duty bakelite table phone, black, no spiral in the cord

I remember that general set-up but with a touch tone phone. Rotary phones were before my time.

Still got one on the wall. It works when the powers out.

The rotary dial. Totally befuddled me in elementary school. I tried to press it like buttons. The school secretaries found it hilarious kids didn't know how to use this anymore. That was probably 1982.

Yes and old enough to have been on a party line too!

And you had to buy the extra long cord separately so you could walk around the house while you were talking.

It was always nice when you had that extra long cord so you could take the phone around the corner for your private calls

Cord is too short to make it upstairs to my room.

Older. Until I was 10, our phone was a wooden wall phone with a crank. Our phone number was 14r14.

One in my kitchen with the extra long cord so I could see mostly around the first floor. And the handset started to crackle when the cord had been stretched out too much

Yes, and I was told not to answer it during a thunderstorm else I could be electricuted.

That pic is wrong. The cord is close to perfect. It needs to be super stretched and knotted up here and there

Our cord was muuuuuch longer to stretch into the next room for privacy!

Yep.

I still have one of these!

I was lied to as a child…my dad said he he paid for incoming and outgoing calls

The wire of the upstairs phone being just long enough so I could go in my room and close the door (and sit against the door because the wire wasn't longer). Hearing a "click" if someone else picked up the other phone. (and then could listen in or participate in the conversation)

Ours was on a desk in the hall, next to a pile of phone books.

We had a green rotary dial phone. In those days a wall mounted or push button phone was the height of sophistication.

I was so happy when my dad finally decided to remodel his kitchen about 10 years ago but sad that they took out the rotary wall phone that had been my great granny’s. That thing had to be at least 60 years old. And yes, I lived there from ages 15 to about 22 in the early 90s so I used it a lot.

Yep. I still prefer books to screens.

"You'll never catch the real napster"