I bought two strange and stackable wooden stools/ottomans. My husband bought an old rotary telephone with the intent to put it in an old phone nook in our daughter's condo.

Back in the day, people spent hours talking to their friends on rotary or push-button phones — the kind that plugged into a jack on the wall and lived on a little table or perhaps on a wall in ...

It isn’t necessarily a belief that a disconnected rotary phone is capable of connecting with the dead. It’s that using this old device in this way, picking up a phone and continuing a ...

[Yaymukund] made an interesting observation. Old-style rotary phones were made to last and made for service. Why? Because you didn’t own them, the phone company did. There was no advantage for ...

The more glass we punch with our fingertips, the more we miss fun physical interfaces like the rotary phone. Sure, they took forever to dial, and you did not want to be one of those kids stuck with… ...

It had been about 30 years since Cristina Wilcox used a rotary phone. But when a massive storm hit the Quad-Cities July 21, it was back to the future for Toby Tree, the tree service owned by her ...

Reader Tyler Brainerd found an old Model 500 rotary phone at his local Goodwill. Instead of passing it over as a relic of a bygone age; he saw it had ...

The sheer volume of old telephones was off the hook. When Touch-Tone technology became widespread in the 1980s, the writing was on the wall for the rotary phone. "Now, if you want to see a herd of ...

Old-timers who grew up using rotary phones might forget about how using a rotary phone meant having phone books and Rolodexes and getting busy signals.

It occurs to me that there are other, non-political ramifications to our dependency on cell phones only. Namely, that total reliance on our individual phones actually limits communication.