Vintage Phones and Nonsense

A look at some vintage phone goodness and a "Beautiator"...WHAT?
#vintage #oldphones #operator #8675309 #telephone #switchboardconnection
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[@kerryhagerty7051]

When I was a kid, we had one of these hanging on the wall. Used it until my parents changed it out with a “modern” phone.

[@BadDogElectronics]

That's pretty awesome. Any ideas what the San Francisco phone was for. Besides well, calling San Francisco ;)

[@kerryhagerty7051]

I’m going to guess that these were hard lines between facilities… possibly even for financial exchanges, big business, railroads or government. The bank of phones each connected you to that city’s exchange (predates “phone numbers” with “exchange prefixes”. The one we had, we could dial phone numbers by shortening the rotation of the dial and getting the right number of clicks.

[@BadDogElectronics]

@@kerryhagerty7051 That makes sense.
I remember a rotary phone when I was a young. The painfully slow dialing. Today I'm thankful for 5G!