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 There's no phone like an old (rotary) phone ...

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 ...

At the Slowik household in the 1970s, we had a single, yellow rotary phone mounted on the kitchen wall. It felt like the center of the home. Many of my five older sisters and six older brothers ...

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 some potential. With some time, some expertise ...

Old school landline telephones have long ... phones — the kind that plugged into a jack on the wall and lived on a little table or ... DIY can also be done with one rotary telephone, ...

An old rotary phone purchased from an antique store in Monroe, Louisiana, is at home on a side table in 2024 even though it's not hooked up and doesn't work. BY JAN RISHER | Staff writer Facebook ...

Old-style rotary phones were made to last and made for service. Why? Because you didn’t own them, ... I have a Chicago Telephone Supply Co. wall-mounted telephone from around 1906.

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I loved Jan Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's phone number, Jackson 8080.