Dric902 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 4 hours ago, Eric said: If you get this, you may be old. Post other things that only old farts will understand. How many know that was with Ace Frehley. Not Vinny, or Eric . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Rellik said: My mom has acouple of these. Two weeks ago, I unplugged it to pack for the move. She had to use other modern phones to call out, but her dial phone rang and worked for incoming calls. If you have one, plug it in and watch your friends jump when it rings. Do a Matrix type response. She also has a few candlesticks. I have one I purchased for my blind MIL that had a Hard of Hearing function on it. I suspect it was one of the first offered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 17, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 17, 2019 And this song? 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Our first Telephone: 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestor Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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railfancwb Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 When transom windows were not decorative. High ceilings were a most necessary part of the transom window experience. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 My mom has acouple of these. Two weeks ago, I unplugged it to pack for the move. She had to use other modern phones to call out, but her dial phone rang and worked for incoming calls. If you have one, plug it in and watch your friends jump when it rings. Do a Matrix type response. She also has a few candlesticks. I thought the telephone system was required to maintain compatibility with the electro-mechanical pulse dialers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Mine back in...... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Stage lighting with real bulbs. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Our first Telephone: And probably on a party line where ring patterns identified the intended recipient (and all others picked up VERY quietly). And you asked the operator to connect you with the intended recipient. And the operator worked at one of these:Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 18, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 18, 2019 15 minutes ago, railfancwb said: High ceilings were a most necessary part of the transom window experience. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yep. High ceilings helped keep a greater volume of the room’s heat up above you and transom windows, along with the exterior windows, helped a building breathe, expelling excessive heat, even when the room doors were closed. Who remembers those huge windows in schools? You had the lower window that could be opened upward and the upper windows that could be lowered to open. Each class had a pole with the brass fitting on the end to unlatch and raise & lower the upper windows. With the windows open, including the transom windows, the building did a pretty fair job of keeping the heat in check on warm days. I think I was in fifth grade when I went to my first school with central AC. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 For awhile when I smoked cigarettes, I thought it was cool to light them one handed with book matches of this design. If in the process one set the entire book aflame, things suddenly became exciting. That game ended when the books were redesigned to put the striker strip on the back side. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Yep. High ceilings helped keep a greater volume of the room’s heat up above you and transom windows, along with the exterior windows, helped a building breathe, expelling excessive heat, even when the room doors were closed. Who remembers those huge windows in schools? You had the lower window that could be opened upward and the upper windows that could be lowered to open. Each class had a pole with the brass fitting on the end to unlatch and raise & lower the upper windows. With the windows open, including the transom windows, the building did a pretty fair job of keeping the heat in check on warm days. I think I was in fifth grade when I went to my first school with central AC. Air conditioning of schools, especially in the south, destroyed the long summer break. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 18, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 18, 2019 Who remembers restaurants that had fishbowls by the cashier, where people could throw in their company’s matchbook, for a chance to win a weekly drawing? 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 18, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 18, 2019 I must have met a hundred people when I was young, that collected matchbooks. People will collected the damnedest things. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 46 minutes ago, Nestor said: I read that the lines would form when the rumor was that they had something to sell, but nobody was sure what! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 21 minutes ago, Eric said: Who remembers restaurants that had fishbowls by the cashier, where people could throw in their company’s matchbook, for a chance to win a weekly drawing? Just the other day, it was business cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) 31 minutes ago, railfancwb said: And probably on a party line where ring patterns identified the intended recipient (and all others picked up VERY quietly). And you asked the operator to connect you with the intended recipient. And the operator worked at one of these: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk As a young lad of questionable ethics, I soon found that I could hook a surplus carbon microphone in series with a pair of earphones and make calls from the bathroom where the phone line came into the house. Yes. It was puzzling just how you would pick up the phone and the switch would make "quietly". But they tried. Edited September 18, 2019 by janice6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestor Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, janice6 said: I read that the lines would form when the rumor was that they had something to sell, but nobody was sure what! Yes. That's true. Because one could trade something for food later on. Or some other item that was needed. My Mom would buy the shoes that were 5 sizes too big for me, hoping that she will be able to trade with someone for the right size. That's because delivery to the store was limited to one size only at the time. To get a pair, she needed a special, government issued coupon and stood outside in the line for 5-6 hours. Edited September 18, 2019 by Nestor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 The old test is simple. If you're not a zoomer or millennial then you're old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 3 hours ago, Dric902 said: We had the pong game hooked up to the Heathkit 27 inch color TV like the last picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 "Close cover before striking", the first of the government edicts to control the masses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted September 18, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted September 18, 2019 I imagine all the grownups here know what this is. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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