Hold the phone: Massachusetts man designs unique car with nice ring to it
A Massachusetts man, who has been into phones since he was a kid, transformed a 1975 Volkswagen Beetle into a massive, drivable phone that is one of the most unusual automotive designs in the world.
That’s a phone?
Pop quiz:
On the old rotary phones what sequence were the numbers?
Why?
1 through 0 counter clockwise. Don’t know why but you could beat someone to death with it and the fooker still worked!
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
^Ha!
I had to look at an image on-line to recall what they looked like.
I completely forgot!
1-9 with 0 in tenth position. There was a pulse for each click ranging from 1 to 10.
./. CBA FED
IHG LKJ MNO
PRS TUV WXT
./. OPER
WHY?
Good thing he wasn’t in to sex toys.
MisCellaneous projects
Olden AOL dialup days
Rotary Digital Dial
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How many here remember the party line?
There were up to four parties on one line.
I love the scene in DIAL M FOR MURDER when Tony calls his home number. It shows the inner working of the payphone as we wait for the call to go through. Just another example of Hitchcock’s usual excellence with suspense.
@aleon – I do. The first telephone I remember as a little boy (1954?) was our party line.
Does anybody remember operator-only accessible small town phone systems? My grandmother who lived in Norton VA had the phone number “7” until the 1960s. You read that right: single digit phone number.
There was a Hitchcock Presents TV show with a party line plot besides Dial M.
I fell asleep before the ending. 🙁
Have a rotary phone here and still use it to call in electrical outages. It is an antique Dutch model wall phone. Can’t ‘press 1’ etc., but eventually someone answers it. The phone stays on and the electric goes off pretty regularly here, out in the boonies.
The party line was an earlier version of Facebook…
I had a neighbor that was the last hold out to pay for a party line. It took her about 5 years to figure out that her entertainment had died…
I remember our party line. I was pretty young, but we had three families on it.
I picked it up once (I was about 6 or 7) and my dad yelled at me to hang it up. He said there was no reason for a kid to be using a phone.
Don’t think I used one until I was about 11.
Does it come in 4wd?
How about an answering machine trailer for vacation travel?
How many minutes per gallon?
Does it have a bumper sticker on it that sez:
“Excuse me, I’m calling Bullshit!”
Loco, I remember that party line episode. I have the first six seasons on DVD (although the first season set barely works).
ALEON
I’m over 70 remember party lines well
the used to be antsy ol woman on my line who’d pick up her receiver when she knew its my ring.
My folks could not afford a pet line till I was 8.
I learned our phone # by the name of the area. when 10 it was Torrey
When I bought my house it was Wabash
We have the push button type phone, like that car, in the bunker…
Abbott and Costello:
The line is busy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2AsU2WpJnc