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drm604

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1. He's dialing with the handset in place.

Reply to valerief (Original post)

Fri May 29, 2015, 12:17 PM

May 2015

That won't work.

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11 sounds your kids have probably never heard [View all] valerief May 2015 OP

He's dialing with the handset in place. drm604 May 2015 #1

Ha! Yeah. Still sounds the same, though. nt valerief May 2015 #3

maybe it has speakerphone Enrique May 2015 #11

Ha! Or mental telepathy. nt valerief May 2015 #14

I remember all of those. nt femmocrat May 2015 #2

I Live where self service is forbidden in gas stations. Wolf Frankula May 2015 #4

How about that dial-up sound from back in the day? Tipperary May 2015 #5

Here you go! valerief May 2015 #8

Oh my. Tipperary May 2015 #9

You mean, "You've got some leh-ers,"? valerief May 2015 #10

That is too funny! Tipperary May 2015 #12

I have a rotary phone cyberswede May 2015 #6

Ohh... I also have that same Bell & Howell projector at the link cyberswede May 2015 #7

awesome color for a phone Enrique May 2015 #13

We still have the gas station bell thingees here in Oregon (and they're probably still in NJ) Arugula Latte May 2015 #15

I was about to pump my own gas in Oregon Lionel Mandrake May 2015 #20

Well, you might get a salmon pelting, a lashing with a hipster's big beard, or a Arugula Latte May 2015 #34

I have a dial app on my smartphone. drm604 May 2015 #16

Phone Recording Archive kentauros May 2015 #17

Proud to say... LP2K12 May 2015 #18

The big memory jolt of the flash cube was the SMELL!! . . . . n/t annabanana May 2015 #24

Mmmmm, acrid AwakeAtLast May 2015 #26

All of them sarge43 May 2015 #19

The morning paper still plops on my front step, The Velveteen Ocelot May 2015 #21

The Polaroid (Land?) camera Motor Feed alphafemale May 2015 #22

The rumble of big block engines, Joe Shlabotnik May 2015 #23

Kids today could never truly appreciate this song csziggy May 2015 #25

Great clip. Another thing--kids today would let Liberace be out and proud and would never take valerief May 2015 #31

True - though I think Liberace was as out as he could have been csziggy May 2015 #32

Mimeograph machine. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2015 #27

!!! progressoid May 2015 #29

Bingo! nt valerief May 2015 #30

We had those in my childhood home, as well as a Singer treadle sewing machine IDemo May 2015 #28

The typewriter they have linked in the article is far too new! csziggy May 2015 #33