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Kids these days! (Original Post)
Diamond_Dog
Mar 2021
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One of these days I'm going to tell my grandkids about our the eight party
Arkansas Granny
Mar 2021
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Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)1. One of these days I'm going to tell my grandkids about our the eight party
telephone line when I was growing up.
Diamond_Dog
(32,063 posts)2. I remember my "techie" son
When he was about 12 .... (hes an adult now). .... astonished at the rotary dial phone we had in the basement.
Arkansas Granny
(31,529 posts)3. And you could get any color you wanted, as long as it was black.
pidge
(274 posts)5. Rotary phones were available in colors.
Bayard
(22,149 posts)4. We had an old wringer washing machine
I ran my arm through the wringer once helping my mom feed clothes through it. She had to take it apart to get me out.
tblue37
(65,488 posts)7. Your arm!! She took your arm apart?!
She probably wanted to! No, the washing machine.