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Love the gloss black front and back! As nice as the glassy back is I may still put a skin over it or place it in a case.
In today's world of cell phones and cordless phones and Bluetooth and all manner of computer based video calling, a phone with a cord is an oddity. A rarity. It's like seeing a Jackalope...At least around here.
But I can remember spending oh-so many late nights as a teenager whispering into the kitchen telephone while lying on the floor, wrapping the twisted cord around my finger. The trick was to tiptoe from my room to the phone without getting caught because it was way past my parents' bedtime. Then, I could spend blissful, hushed, hours talking to my boyfriend about matters that seemed to get vastly more important as the night raced by in the dark of the kitchen.
Maybe that's why I smile every time we have to take this phone out and put it to use after a big storm kills the power and, therefore, our cordless phones. My kids giggle and the absurdity of being tethered on one location. I, on the other hand, twist the cord around my finger and remember...
115 Pictures in 2015 #82: Nostalgia
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I miss this type of old phone. I remembered my grandma's house did have one. It was back to beginning 1980s. Whenever I look at this phone, I feel like somebody is turning back the clock...
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(I am still very much under the weather. I have no interest in my 365 at the moment... but can't dismiss it's role in my life.)
Check out this phone! Someone donated it to school (times are tough you know) and I thought it would be a fun prop for Camp Granada
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This was my first phone ever, the Sagem MC 820. For my first phone it worked well. It did what it was supposed to do and that's all. After a while the battery didn't last more than a day and finally, I replaced it with a Nokia. It still works today, but the battery is completely dead.
For some strange reason we still have this old phone which of course is unused nowadays. We had our home completed in 2005 and this was our then "modern" phone - my goodness how times are changed we are now wi-fi and I don't think I could use that old beauty, today!
Off to Tampa to do "a little" shopping (!!) this afternoon so trying hard to get my photos done as no doubt we will be back late!! Still going to catch up with my commenting!!
Our Daily Challenge ~ UNUSED OR UNUSEABLE .....
Apologies for being behind with my comments on all your great photos - I'm afraid to say we are just having too much fun in the sun - but I will catch up with you all ASAP!
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With nothing in the can by half ten I needed to shoot something in the house. This is the phone in the library and it harks back to a pic I posted many weeks ago of a wood yard in Tuebrook.
I remember as a nipper asking my old man what the letters were for on telephones. He told me that "we don't really use them anymore".
He was right then, but who would have thought that the advent of text messaging would bring them right back into use again, even to the point where they are coded into soft keyboards on smart phones!
Their origin in the UK is probably largely associated with the introduction of the Director system from 1927 that allowed callers to make calls between exchanges without going through an operator.
The three letter code of the exchange was mapped onto the telephone buttons, with the letter 'O' being on the zero key.
There's a beautiful legacy to this. My number at home would have been on the Anfield exchange which was A (on 2), N (of 6) then F (on 3). Guess what my phone number starts with? The prefix for the Royal exchange (ROY) yields 709 which will surely be familiar to anyone who has phoned town!
As a final point of interest in can't be co-incidence that the national codes line up nicely.
B is on 2, E is on 3, G is on 4, L is on 5 and M is on 6. The national dialling codes for Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester are of course 0121, 0131, 0141, 0151 and 0161 respectively. Isn't that neat? :)
Dependable, never fails when the power goes out. Rolodex in the background. A phone provides a gateway to the world outside our homes and spaces. We take what we can get - even if I knew where a gate might be today, under two+ feet of snow, I couldn't find it. Ergo, be creative and interpret...