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Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on March 16, 2011 at 1:07pm

I love stuff that makes folks remember other times and places and it's even better if the stuff still works!

Comment by Sheree on March 16, 2011 at 12:30pm

Long after touch-tone phones appeared we still had an old rotary dial in our bedroom.  When the kids' friends would ask to use the phone, I would always send them to that one and then peek in to watch them try and figure it out!!  I finally got rid of it when we realized we were still "leasing" it from the phone company for $15 a month!!

Comment by Toby McConnell on March 16, 2011 at 10:55am

I bought a pretty baby blue wall model on ebay that works fine. It's in a box right now. But you do go back in a time machine using them. No Caller ID, call waiting etc. It rings and you answer without a clue. A weird feeling. Lisa, I haven't heard a lot of requests to stay on the line. I think most companies direct callers to "speak or say" your answers to prompts now, to deal with people who use rotaries or who just refused to use the &%$#@*^& prompts.

Comment by wiffledust on March 15, 2011 at 4:11pm

yep, yep...they work. only trouble is you're that person when they say push 1 or push 2 or if you have a rotary phone, stay on the line. i wonder what drop box you get sent into with that one!

Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on March 15, 2011 at 3:58pm

I wonder if they would still work with today's technology?

Comment by wiffledust on March 15, 2011 at 3:40pm

i love these old phones! we had this one, but not with that fancy filigre on the handset....i remember how longggg it took for the zero to go around!