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I’m 74. My grandmother had a small alcove in her hallway with a built in shelf, and a “slot” for a telephone book, for a landline. Her phone was a black rotary dial ( I still remember her number-PE 60896). Hanging above the phone shelf was a beautiful vintage painting of a young woman in a standing pose. The colors were wonderful. When she died the painting was to be left to me. Sadly, it got “rerouted” to another. I still clearly remember that hallway memory.
My Husband and I have our Sailboat @ Long Beach Pier. We bought a Laguna 38. It’s a very beautiful location. We love Sailing to Catalina Island for a few days. Or spend 2-3 months in Mexico 🇲🇽. So much fun.
Love That owl phone!! I'm 62 and have NEVER seen one like it. My most vivid memory of growing up with a landline phone is my dad ALWAYS listening in on the extension phone from the bedroom, whenever a boy would call me.
I never gave up my landline. That owl phone is soooooo cool! You pick up the best finds. During the pandemic when i could not go to the goodwill, I got my "fix" by watching you on youtube.
It is so different when I was younger, you had to ring the operator and ask for the person you wanted to talk to, then she would ring the person and say Laura is on the phone and she wants to talk to you. What a mess and you would have to talk loudly so the person. Could hear you. We’ve come a long way. 👍🌟
When I was young in the 50s my Grandma had an old black rotary phone on the wall in the living room. You could listen to other peoples conversations. We had to stand to talk on the phone and they were short calls. Amazing how a simple item like a phone can take you back to a time of long lost memories. Thank you for the memories.
Just before my Uncle died, an owl came by my car and actually touched the passenger side with it's wing weeks before he died. I don't see that as a bad omen, I felt the owl let me know his time was short and I was able to go see him in the hospital before he died. Owls are my animal totem so it seemed so fitting! Great video, lot's of fun places to go and the journey always seems better when you take us along!
When I was young growing up in Chicago you didn’t own your landline phone. You rented it at a monthly rate. Then AT&T opened up a bunch of phone stores where you could actually purchase your own phone. It was an exciting time for phones. (No caller I.D.) We’ve come a long way baby! I love the owl phone. Truly unique.
I love the owl phone 😍 My husband keeps telling me that when he retires he's getting rid of cell phones and going back to land lines. So, if anyone wants to talk to him they can call old school or stop by. Lol The owl phone would be a great retirement gift for him.
I grew up in 80-90’s as well. I had the see-through phones that you could see all the wires and chip boards inside. I think it even lite up when it rang? My kids just don’t get it with the good old phone stuck to a wall. But the owl is super cool. Perfect for a cabin land line. I would put in my cabin and make it a rule that if you visit all cell phones go into a basket and can only use the owl while visiting. Great way to connect with loved ones.
It would just be a "Hoot" to have this feathered friend sitting around. Every time it would ring I would think of you know "Who" . You Laura the best at designing a space with the amazing finds you pick on your ventures!
I thought nothing would bring me back to having a land line....until this Owl Phone. As a kid I remember having a super long coil telephone cord and being able to stretch it far enough into a different room in our house...to chit chat with my friends in privacy. Although, that left the wall-mounted base accessible to my siblings to hang up my calls. LOL - Renée Suzanne
I just love your owl phone! I grew up in the 60’s and can remember having a “party line”. One ring was our home and two rings was the other party. If you picked up the other party’s ring you could listen in 😊 I have always loved owls and when I got married we lived on Owl Bridge Road for 40 years! We would hear owls almost every evening. And we lived right next to a bridge along our creek. My husband passed away but those are precious memories. Thank you so much for your you tube channel. I look so forward to following you on your treasure hunts. Your new home is truly beautiful!
I grew up in the 70s/80s and really miss those days. I had a Snoopy phone as a kid and lost it when I broke my leg later in life and the box that contained it was lost. My grandparents also had a heavy, black dial phone that my young daughter would use for play. Love your channel and I've learned so much from your thrusting adventures.
I remember latch hook owls and macrame hanging baskets and handbags. I took a class in high school in 1976-1977, called Creative Home Arts, that taught you how to do those things, plus, knitting, crocheting, embroidery and needlepointing. I made a latch hook pillow case and wall hanging, macrame plant holder, embroidery pillow cases, with crocheting edges. My poor parents were the recipients of the pillow cases and my then boyfriend the pillow case! The first shop you visited had the sofa I grew up with, I’m surprised you didn’t hear me shout out from where I am! Lol! Love the mushroom cocktail stick holder and the mouse toothpicks. As usual, I love your jewellery finds!
I hope you went to the City of Orange. A few miles down the road from long Beach. A college town, with a gorgeous old downtown crowded with vintages and antique malls. Truly fantastic! Do not miss it!
I have so many memories of my earlier years in the telecom business as an operator. Landlines were the only connection and I was always happy to help make those connections. Great memories!
Being old school I still have my land line. Growing up in the country I can remember having party lines. When your neighbors got a call everyone on your party line would know it. Everyones phone had a special ring. And you could listen on your phone to their conversations. The owl phone already has a place in my home.
Wow that phone .I had a pink wall hanging 📱 phone.But grew up seeing a lot.Even use the phone booth,you know I'm older. You found great treasures. Thank you for sharing ❤
Michelle's shop is staged like a very high end retail store. It's absolutely amazing! TFS all of your adventures. I haven't traveled since the pandemic started so your videos are priceless! 💙 P.S. The wooden mushrooms are for appetizer picks.
Around age 10, I tagged along with my dad to his job as an insurance agent. He brought me to the biggest home I had ever seen. It had a bowling alley! But the most fascinating thing to me was their Mickey Mouse phone. Love the 🦉 phone too. Makes me smile.
I live near the first shop. My son, who is 5 loves going into thrift stores, he always asks if we can stop at one. I love it. The boat area is called Shoreline Village. I used to teach art workshops at The Hang Out.
You are such a hoot to watch at times nothing never boaring. The owl phone is very unique. My mom had a land line phone that looked like transiter radio. You would lift the handle to carry the radio around and it was the handle for the phone with a dial numbers. Was so cool. Take Care your home looks amazing.
I just checked out your store. Amazing. The owl phone is really cool. I had a princess phone when I was 11. I honestly thought I was a princess. It's taken many years to figure out I am not! Thanks for the memories. Love, Princess Leith.
Since I started watching your videos, I’ve been drawn to two things I had thought I left buried in the ‘70s: brass and owls. I’ve thrifted a small but growing collection of each, some for my vintage store in my tiny hometown but most of them I find the perfect spot for in my house. The phone disguised as an owl speaks to me. I too started thrifting vicariously through you at the beginning of the pandemic and through a whole year of quarantine. Thank you for doing what you do.
I used to live in Southern California. First Thursdays of every month they would have all the galleries and shops open later in the evening in Laguna Beach. Many local shops would have live music and wine and appetizers....it was so fun to walk around. I think they still do it but you know, a lot has changed since the pandemic. Check out first Thursdays in Laguna Beach next time you visit Southern California.
I can remember always having a phone in the bathroom growing up and I thought that was really neat. The reason for having one there was because my Mom had a big beehive hairdo and she was always in there teasing and fixing her hair and she didnt want to stop to answer the phone. Sounds like nothing but I can see her now standing there with a 3 way mirror hanging on the back wall so she could fix her hair in the back. Nice memories, thanks for inspiring that one to come up.🌷
Hi Laura love a land line phone, growing up there was only one phone for a family of six. We stretched that coil phone line for miles around our apartment for some privacy so no one could eavesdrop on our conversation. I remember our phone number began with two letters instead of an all digit phone number. Ours was Evergreen 5 for EV5.... It was so cool. I remember the operator would call & ask if you would accept charges from one of my brothers who were stationed in other states or countries. Those were precious times. Great memories. Love your channel & your enthusiasm with each place & find. My daughter & I plan to visit the Oregon coast one day. It has everything beaches, forest, mountains & giant rocks protruding out of the ocean. TFS your space with us. 😘
I love this owl phone!!! I have worked for the telephone company for 38 years!! I used to be a operator “0” and I called all over the world in the 80’s!!! And I loved it!! I still have a landline and this would be perfect sitting in my shop/home.. I still work for the telephone co but I also have a vintage shop which I need help organizing.. I don’t know if everyone knows this but owls bring clarity into your life!!! So maybe he / she could help me !! I love your channel and watch it religiously Laura!!! Xoxo
LOVE THE AWESOME OWL PHONE! We had a wall phone in our kitchen with the LONGEST cord so you could walk around with it. This was even before wireless phones! After a long chat with someone, I would always have to extricate myself from the cord that always managed to get wrapped around me!
When I was young my grandfather had a produce store and a farm. We lived a couple doors down and our house and his and the store and one more neighbor were all on the same shared line. We had to listen for our ring before we answered! The phone in the store was the kind that was wood and hung on the wall. It didn’t have a dial. You picked up the ear piece, pushed the cradle for the ear piece up and down to get a connection and then cranked a metal handle around several times to get an operator. When she answered, you spoke into this black speaker and gave her the number you wanted to call and she would connect you. The first three numbers in the call were read as a word and I guess that made it easier for the operator? Ours was ‘683’ and we said ‘Murray’ for that combo. My aunt still has that old wooden wall phone in her collection. Great video! I went to sleep and dreamed you came to my home town and we explored one of my favorite antique/vintage stores together!
I live in a 1980’s home and we have landlines in every room. I would love to bring back the land line phone. This owl phone is unique and I love it. I’m crazy about vintage anything. . this would be a “conversation piece” ha ha for sure. Get it conversation piece! I remember as a young teen, having to talk to my boyfriend in the kitchen. Thankfully we had an extra long cord so I would stretch it around the corner. Then one Christmas my parents bought me a Mickey Mouse phone for my room! Loved this video in my ol stomping grounds of So Cal.
Owl landline is so awesome. When I was growing up my parents got us kids a simple black phone. We just gifted grandkids a Mickey Mouse landline phone. We still have landline in our home. So fun watching kids experience a land line. This would be so cool to have in our home.
I not only had a rotary phone but I was on a PARTY LINE!! Ya had to know which ring was yours and if someone got a call at 3 A.M. EVERYONE woke up!! Right now I have my grandmother's red emergency wall hanging phone as a decoration. And I know that owl phone would be a perfect addition to the same wall. Thank you and God bless
This phone is amazing!! When 3 way calling was popular, I would have my best friend on the phone and call her crush on the other line. Once I called and acted as if I was doing a survey for the Sylvania light bulb company. I asked questions about their light bulb usage and how many light bulbs they had. You could hear him counting the bulbs in his house. It was hilarious. After he hung up, my best friend was so excited she got to hear his voice. Oh the good old days!!!
The minute you showed the phone My 8 yr old son was obsessed. He has been collecting owls his whole life 😁. Which all started with a set of owl lovies we got from a friend when he was born. He still has them. Fortunately, both his grandparents still have landlines so he’s knows what they are.
Hi I found your channel a couple of months ago a I absolutely love every thing you guys do I'm 13 years old and I collect all kinds off things I love the phone I have never seen one before keep the videos coming
I love the owl phone. It is so unique. Great video as usual. My favorite phone was my sky blue phone that matched all of the blue bedroom decor I had a 10 gallon aquarium with fish like neon tetra and black mollies and blue rocks. My mom made the curtains and bedspread for my waterbed and bought unpainted bare wood desk and dresser and painted them blue and white. And my dad still has a phone from the 80s that is wood and looks old fashion and hangs on the wall dial phone. Thanks for sharing. My dream is to open a vintage shop. For now I’ll live vicariously through you and my thrifting channels. You have the most beautiful blue eyes too! Have a wonderful weekend!❣️❣️❣️
I grew up in the 50s on a small costal NC island. We had party lines. Each person on the line had a special ring that was their own. There were a lot of nosy neighbors that would listen in on other’s calls.
Hi Laura, what a show! I once had an orange phone. It was pretty cool. I also had a very vintage wall phone. But this owl phone takes the cake. You always have so much fun in what you do. Thankyou for sharing yourself and adventures.
Your vintage finds are unbelievable. I bought my husband a bright red Gumball Machine with the red flat phone fit into the side. Still have it but the phone is missing some digital functions. But it is perfect for us. The Owl Phone would be a great addition to our 70’s vibe. We still have a landline with the same number for over 48 years. As you can tell we are “keepers”. Lol
I still have a landline and love it. That owl is next level for a really different phone. I have a reallly cool phone that looks like 50’s diner and when it rings, it lights up and plays Bill Haley’s Rock Around The Clock!
I love the owl phone! I had a yellow princess trimline phone in my room as a teenager! I bought it myself after I started working and I felt so grown up to have it! My husband has a 3 Stooges phone still in the box. We got it many years ago and never set it up before things went cordless. Thank you for taking us on your journey! It was awesome!
as a teen in the 50s we had a wall phone in a hallway, where my sister or I would be sitting on the floor, feet up on the opposite wall talking way too long, according to my Dad. He would often walk by while waiting for a business call and hang up on us. We never realised it til we were waiting for a response in the conversation. I still have a land line and prefer it to my cell phone. Love the owl, he or she is gorgeous, looks very majestic.
My Husband grew up in Long Beach and we're going for Spring Break. We also go to Seal Beach which ia next to LB. We always go to Schooner or Later which is a restaurant and the outdoor eating area is so nice and the food is delish!
LOVE THAT OWL!!! I was born in 1952 & graduated college in 1974 so you can see I was definitely a 70’s girl. I even had tickets to Woodstock that I won on a radio show! We had dial up phones and I don’t think I ever did have a push button phone. I love that owl tho and what a conversation piece it would be! Thanks for your shows. My husband & I watch them all the time. We love mid century items. Love watching you put together your new home too! Keep up the good work. Ellen
Wow is that owl phone so kool, I remember when we got our first landline in our home in the early 70s. All my friends already had theres. I remember being at my friends house and her phone rang, and her mother said Brenda telephone...I was indeed shook, it was my sister telling me our phone was in...I ran all the way home at 10 yrs old, and started writing my friends phone #s down memorizing them...but I just started collecting owl, and would totally love to have, thanks for taking me back to remember such a great time in my life.
When I was young, we had a black rotary phone. Then a harvest gold colored wall mount phone. Also had a princess phone at one time. I also remember party lines. I'd love to own the owl phone. It's very cool! I love to watch your videos.
I've been so obsessed with your channel. You have awakened a love of bohemian for myself. It took your channel to solidify how much I have always been in love with it. Your jewelry is so stunning. I can only hope to find some amazingly beautiful pieces like yours. 🙏🦋
Hi Laura. Simply love the vintage owl phone.. Its unique..🦉🦉 my Mom loved owls & collected them, so I grew up with them all around. Im still in my childhood row home in Philly, 4 generations have lived here now.. We still have a land line, YES, with the SAME ORIGINAL PHONE #...!!! its unheard of.. I just cant part with my old phone #.. I remember party lines too, and, I was thrilled to get my own princess phone at age 16, way back in early '70's.. It was the BEST. Ok, please add my name to the drawing. Would love to own the owl phone, in memory of my dear Mom.. TY...hugs & luv..🆒♏🪐☮✝🔮✨🌙🛍💖
I love that owl phone so much. It's crazy how I can remember home phone numbers of childhood friends, but if you ask me their cell number, I have no clue. I just don't memorize numbers anymore! haha. I will never forget the turmoil of being a teen in the mid-90s and having dial-up internet... and having angst when someone got a phone call when I was online (or when someone wanted to go online while I was using the phone).
Yay!!! Love watching your shopping trips. The phone was so cool. I found a 1980s lips phone my daughter about 12 at the time loved it. Please make more shopping videos it really doesn't mater if you buy anything or not. I live in New Zealand your shops are incredible. My husband and enjoy these trips so much.
Your videos have inspired and taught me so much about vintage. I love your energy and approach to life. This phone is beyond cool. Growing up in the 90s, I was so excited when my parents let me get a phone jack in my room. I had one of the clear plastic phones where you could see all the colorful wires. It was everything and to this day, I'm sad I gave it away.
That owl is very cool. I grew up with two phones in the house and if I wanted privacy I had to stretch the cord around the kitchen into the dining room as far as it could go and whisper while my sisters would continually yell that they needed the phone too. Memories! I live in a 60s house now and there is still a phone hookup in my kitchen! Love your videos 😊
Whooooo wouldn't love this owl phone?? It truly does bring back memories. It takes me back to the bright red pair of lips phone my sister and I shared in our bedroom. Does anyone else remember the busy signal, long before the call waiting feature was introduced? What a great video Laura, you have such a great eye for products and film.
I love the little onesie you found. It’s so true - all we need is leave. Speaking of love - that owl phone!!!I Remember the Sports Illustrated tennis shoe phone? Or the Mickey Mouse phone and the fat valentine phone??? So fun. I was a teenager in the 70’s and talking on the phone was just the best!!! I remember (kinda fondly) I was talking to my boyfriend on the phone, which had a coil cord that was at least 10 feet long, and he said something funny. I had just taken a drink of my root beer and I laughed so hard, it came out of my nose!!!
My parents had only one land line that was in that hall just by the lounge room . I had to sit on the floor for the very long conversations with my husband then boyfriend and my mother could hear everything . We are both 61 now and still married had three kids and two beautiful grandkids so far .
I love that owl phone and think it's one of the coolest things I've seen. I still have a landline and pay dearly to keep it. I remember rotary phones and playing jokes on people - like dialing random numbers and asking "Is your refrigerator running? The answer would be Yes, and we'd say, "better go catch it then". Silly pranks, thank goodness that was before caller ID
My sister started to work at a little country store. I called one day & asked if they had Prince Albert in a can (it was tobacco, for the younger generation). She said hold on & I'll check. I was about to burst before she got back to the phone. She came back & said, yes we do! I said, then let him out before he suffocates! That night at the dinner table I asked if she had Prince Albert in the can? She wanted to murder me 😁.
Been an avid fan of your videos since 2020 all the way from the Philippines 🇵🇭. I’m hooked by your creativity and interior design skills! It’s always inspiring to see how one can curate, collect and recycle all at the same time. Would love to have the owl 🦉 phone when we get there in April. So it can always remind me that I too can make a living out of what I love to do. 💕
I still have my landline outlets but currently not on a plan, but times are always changing. I love owls, they remind me of my parents and relatives growing up. I had the neatest phone in the 80s. It was the clear neon one that lit up with florescent colors where you could see the inside mechanisms. I wish I still had that.
Hello Laura, first of all I love your channel..I am also drawn to different and unique items. I have to tell you about my granddaughter I brought home a vintage phone that you have to dial for my office. My granddaughter walked in and said Abuela what is this I told it was a land phone from when I was young..she looked at me with such a face and picked up the handle and looked at the dial on the the phone and said how do you use this..so her mother and I showed her..she was laughing so much that it brought us to an uncontrollable laugh..I will remember that forever. I could only imagine if I won the owl phone and showed her what she would think..Thanks for sharing all your great adventures..
That owl phone is FABULOUS! I need it in my life!😍😂What an awesome find! My favorite childhood phone was the sleeping Garfield one! We had the best 1980s/90s childhood memories!
Hi Laura… Thank you for sharing the road trip to Long Beach, CA. I had to write when you asked about old phones. I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. My family has had many old phones. Dad had a long wooden wall phone as well as a small box wooden wall phone. He also bought a house because of the wall phone (mustard yellow) with the rotary dial that still worked. Today he has an old black phone (weighs a lot) that sits on the counter that actually still works (rings). It even has the old cord still. My sister and I had a Mickey Mouse phone and an orange ‘trim line’ that had buttons that lit up.
I do love the owl phone. I remember having one of phones that would light up when someone called and it was see through. So you could see the fun colored wires. Great video.
I LOVE the owl phone!!!! OH MY!!! I have to say....my first phone I had was a bright orange slim line wall phone with a super long coiled cord that could reach sooo far!! It hung in my kitchen and matched my amazing orange Tupperware canisters!!LOL. Every time I see one on a flippers show...I get all excited!! Love watching all your videos!! God Bless
Laura, thank you for taking us to long Beach CA.. how beautiful. I love the owl phone, I as well still have my land line. I have also had the same phone number for 22 years now.. it comes in handy when the power goes out. I should mention that I have old phones as well. Lol.. brings back memories talking on the kitchen phone and walking into the dining room and the living room, the cord would stretch for miles..lol.. the good Ole days.. thank you for the opportunity to win this cool phone. How fun, good luck to everyone. Love ya Laura...good luck with your sale..
This is so amazing Laura! My shop is smiling ear to ear 😀 I'm so happy you visited and we got to catch up after all these years. I love everything you're doing and your passion for vintage. Until next time friend!
The coolest phone I ever had was a white Modern Scandinavian phone. I was watching an old James Bond movie and would you believe there was the same phone I had in my youth! The dial of the phone.... yes dial and the hang up button was on the bottom of the phone because the phone sat upright! I still have this phone! Maybe I should see about having it rewired to work in the yr 2022!
I've begun an online collection and this would be the perfect addition. I remember, this will date me, the phone at my grandma's that was all one piece. It stood on the desk and had a little hanger the earpiece rested on. When you lifted it, you dialed the numbers on the base. You could hold in to your hand while you talked. They may have been called a candlestick phone. Does that ever bring back memories! Great video. Lovd to watch. Today is my youngest daughter's birthday.
Thank you, Laura, for this all-inclusive video of your trip to Long Beach and the shops there. I love the owl phone. For one thing, I collect owls and I have an owl lamp. My favorite phone in my past was a pink princess phone from AT&T. It was an oval phone that had buttons instead of a dial. I had it in my 20’s and now I’m in my 70’s!
Owls of all kinds are cool. What a conversation piece. One wonders how long you could talk using this large phone, but I am willing to try. Thanks for the fun find. Sweet.
I have never seen an owl landline phone. How unique. I still have a landline for my work. My Mom loved the Ornate French Phones that were popular in the 70s. She'd call and say I'm talking to you on the French phone. I could picture her sitting in a comfy chair in the living room using her favorite phone. I am an Owl Lover for sure. And this phone is a rare find.
Growing up my favorites A pink rotary Princess phone in my parents bedroom., The yellow rotary wall phone on the kitchen wall, The black rotary phone with the extra long curley cord that stretched across the hallway into my bedroom! When we sold our parents house the landline was still operating. As an "adult" in my own home the combination touch tone phone with AM/FM radio. I still have a land line in my home of 45 years. Land lines operate even when the electrical power goes out. The owl telephone is a fabulous fine.
Omg!The owl phone brings back so many memories! My mothers bestfriendhad one....I had the clear phone! I miss those days! That's probably why I'm so into thifting..cause it brings back my great childhood 😭goodtimes... oh to be young again! 😆 🤣thank you for the videos! I get my goodwill fix when I don't feel like going out..lol
WOW thats really neat an owl phone I've never seen one and I have a crazy owl obsession. One of my favorite memories of having a landlines was having a clueless phone. You were definitely one of the cool kids with that baby. It had a pull out ear piece and you could change your voice 4 diffrent ways and push a few buttons and cher would as as if or whatever lol
As a child we had a super heavy epic metal phone from AT&T it was yellow and must have weighed over ten pounds (metal with plastic)-and we kept it well into the early 2000's- we probably got rid of it in late 2002 and not because it wasn't working-it was still in perfect working condition but whenever we had to make phone calls we had problems when automated customer service became the norm- you had to press 5 for this department or press 8 for this other department and we couldn't do it because our big yellow phone had that rotary wheel-so we had to stop using it. Sadly my mom got rid of without my knowledge about ten years ago. It was great because you could do a really dramatic hang up on someone when you were angry-love your owl its a hoot!! We love our landline-we have kept ours long after everyone else got rid of theirs-so I am over joyed they are coming back. Love your owl phone it would go great with our gothic boho decor-yes you heard it right boho gothic decor- it is a thing. We always enjoy your videos and were so pleasantly surprised when you were so supportive of our vintage selling endeavors. Thank you for your advice and kind words and we are so glad you found the home of your dreams and that you are creating wonderful new memories. Stay safe and enjoy your thrifting adventures. P.S. Love watching your boys Lorenzo and Jean-Pierre.
I even remember what we called our party line. You could hear everybody's ring and knew when they were getting a phone call. And to top that off, you could listen in on their conversation! You called someone by turning a crank on the side of the phone. Phone numbers were recognized by how many long rings and short rings were made. For instance our number was two short rings and a long ring. That owl would be surprised and pretty proud of the push bottom's he has.:)
I have gone vintage shopping with my niece and SIL at some of the shops you featured today and found some great things. It has become a tradition to have Thanksgiving at my brother and sister-in-laws home in L.A. and then go for afternoon tea at Chado's and vintage shopping on black Friday.
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Drats! These people are popping up all over the place! I'm sorry this happened to you.
Laura, do you remember how much the Patrick Nagel picture sells for?
I’m 74. My grandmother had a small alcove in her hallway with a built in shelf, and a “slot” for a telephone book, for a landline. Her phone was a black rotary dial
( I still remember her number-PE 60896). Hanging above the phone shelf was a beautiful vintage painting of a young woman in a standing pose. The colors were wonderful. When she died the painting was to be left to me. Sadly, it got “rerouted” to another. I still clearly remember that hallway memory.
My Husband and I have our Sailboat @ Long Beach Pier. We bought a Laguna 38. It’s a very beautiful location. We love Sailing to Catalina Island for a few days. Or spend 2-3 months in Mexico 🇲🇽. So much fun.
Love That owl phone!! I'm 62 and have NEVER seen one like it. My most vivid memory of growing up with a landline phone is my dad ALWAYS listening in on the extension phone from the bedroom, whenever a boy would call me.
Where I grew up and spent most of my life in Long Beach! I'm surprised that you missed the HUGE Long Beach Flea Market! It's amazing!
I never gave up my landline. That owl phone is soooooo cool! You pick up the best finds. During the pandemic when i could not go to the goodwill, I got my "fix" by watching you on youtube.
I love the mushrooms! Great find.
It is so different when I was younger, you had to ring the operator and ask for the person you wanted to talk to, then she would ring the person and say Laura is on the phone and she wants to talk to you. What a mess and you would have to talk loudly so the person. Could hear you. We’ve come a long way. 👍🌟
When I was young in the 50s my Grandma had an old black rotary phone on the wall in the living room. You could listen to other peoples conversations. We had to stand to talk on the phone and they were short calls. Amazing how a simple item like a phone can take you back to a time of long lost memories. Thank you for the memories.
Just before my Uncle died, an owl came by my car and actually touched the passenger side with it's wing weeks before he died. I don't see that as a bad omen, I felt the owl let me know his time was short and I was able to go see him in the hospital before he died. Owls are my animal totem so it seemed so fitting! Great video, lot's of fun places to go and the journey always seems better when you take us along!
When I was young growing up in Chicago you didn’t own your landline phone. You rented it at a monthly rate. Then AT&T opened up a bunch of phone stores where you could actually purchase your own phone. It was an exciting time for phones. (No caller I.D.) We’ve come a long way baby! I love the owl phone. Truly unique.
I love the owl phone 😍 My husband keeps telling me that when he retires he's getting rid of cell phones and going back to land lines. So, if anyone wants to talk to him they can call old school or stop by. Lol
The owl phone would be a great retirement gift for him.
I grew up in 80-90’s as well. I had the see-through phones that you could see all the wires and chip boards inside. I think it even lite up when it rang? My kids just don’t get it with the good old phone stuck to a wall. But the owl is super cool. Perfect for a cabin land line. I would put in my cabin and make it a rule that if you visit all cell phones go into a basket and can only use the owl while visiting. Great way to connect with loved ones.
It would just be a "Hoot" to have this feathered friend sitting around. Every time it would ring I would think of you know "Who" . You Laura the best at designing a space with the amazing finds you pick on your ventures!
I thought nothing would bring me back to having a land line....until this Owl Phone.
As a kid I remember having a super long coil telephone cord and being able to stretch it far enough into a different room in our house...to chit chat with my friends in privacy. Although, that left the wall-mounted base accessible to my siblings to hang up my calls. LOL
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I just love your owl phone! I grew up in the 60’s and can remember having a “party line”. One ring was our home and two rings was the other party. If you picked up the other party’s ring you could listen in 😊 I have always loved owls and when I got married we lived on Owl Bridge Road for 40 years! We would hear owls almost every evening. And we lived right next to a bridge along our creek. My husband passed away but those are precious memories. Thank you so much for your you tube channel. I look so forward to following you on your treasure hunts. Your new home is truly beautiful!
I grew up in the 70s/80s and really miss those days. I had a Snoopy phone as a kid and lost it when I broke my leg later in life and the box that contained it was lost. My grandparents also had a heavy, black dial phone that my young daughter would use for play. Love your channel and I've learned so much from your thrusting adventures.
I remember latch hook owls and macrame hanging baskets and handbags. I took a class in high school in 1976-1977, called Creative Home Arts, that taught you how to do those things, plus, knitting, crocheting, embroidery and needlepointing. I made a latch hook pillow case and wall hanging, macrame plant holder, embroidery pillow cases, with crocheting edges. My poor parents were the recipients of the pillow cases and my then boyfriend the pillow case!
The first shop you visited had the sofa I grew up with, I’m surprised you didn’t hear me shout out from where I am! Lol! Love the mushroom cocktail stick holder and the mouse toothpicks.
As usual, I love your jewellery finds!
I wish these videos were an hour long - can’t get enough of you shopping and finding treasures!!!!!
I hope you went to the City of Orange. A few miles down the road from long Beach. A college town, with a gorgeous old downtown crowded with vintages and antique malls. Truly fantastic! Do not miss it!
I have so many memories of my earlier years in the telecom business as an operator. Landlines were the only connection and I was always happy to help make those connections. Great memories!
Being old school I still have my land line. Growing up in the country I can remember having party lines. When your neighbors got a call everyone on your party line would know it. Everyones phone had a special ring. And you could listen on your phone to their conversations. The owl phone already has a place in my home.
You are just such a Rennaisance person with all your interests, I admire that so much! I love watching your videos! Thanks for bringing us along!
Wow that phone .I had a pink wall hanging 📱 phone.But grew up seeing a lot.Even use the phone booth,you know I'm older. You found great treasures. Thank you for sharing ❤
Michelle's shop is staged like a very high end retail store. It's absolutely amazing! TFS all of your adventures. I haven't traveled since the pandemic started so your videos are priceless! 💙 P.S. The wooden mushrooms are for appetizer picks.
It really is! She’s got so much talent!
Around age 10, I tagged along with my dad to his job as an insurance agent. He brought me to the biggest home I had ever seen. It had a bowling alley! But the most fascinating thing to me was their Mickey Mouse phone. Love the 🦉 phone too. Makes me smile.
I live near the first shop. My son, who is 5 loves going into thrift stores, he always asks if we can stop at one. I love it. The boat area is called Shoreline Village. I used to teach art workshops at The Hang Out.
You are such a hoot to watch at times nothing never boaring. The owl phone is very unique. My mom had a land line phone that looked like transiter radio. You would lift the handle to carry the radio around and it was the handle for the phone with a dial numbers. Was so cool. Take Care your home looks amazing.
I just checked out your store. Amazing. The owl phone is really cool. I had a princess phone when I was 11. I honestly thought I was a princess. It's taken many years to figure out I am not! Thanks for the memories. Love, Princess Leith.
Since I started watching your videos, I’ve been drawn to two things I had thought I left buried in the ‘70s: brass and owls. I’ve thrifted a small but growing collection of each, some for my vintage store in my tiny hometown but most of them I find the perfect spot for in my house. The phone disguised as an owl speaks to me. I too started thrifting vicariously through you at the beginning of the pandemic and through a whole year of quarantine. Thank you for doing what you do.
I used to live in Southern California. First Thursdays of every month they would have all the galleries and shops open later in the evening in Laguna Beach. Many local shops would have live music and wine and appetizers....it was so fun to walk around. I think they still do it but you know, a lot has changed since the pandemic. Check out first Thursdays in Laguna Beach next time you visit Southern California.
I can remember always having a phone in the bathroom growing up and I thought that was really neat. The reason for having one there was because my Mom had a big beehive hairdo and she was always in there teasing and fixing her hair and she didnt want to stop to answer the phone. Sounds like nothing but I can see her now standing there with a 3 way mirror hanging on the back wall so she could fix her hair in the back. Nice memories, thanks for inspiring that one to come up.🌷
Hi Laura love a land line phone, growing up there was only one phone for a family of six. We stretched that coil phone line for miles around our apartment for some privacy so no one could eavesdrop on our conversation. I remember our phone number began with two letters instead of an all digit phone number. Ours was Evergreen 5 for EV5.... It was so cool. I remember the operator would call & ask if you would accept charges from one of my brothers who were stationed in other states or countries. Those were precious times. Great memories. Love your channel & your enthusiasm with each place & find. My daughter & I plan to visit the Oregon coast one day. It has everything beaches, forest, mountains & giant rocks protruding out of the ocean. TFS your space with us. 😘
I love this owl phone!!! I have worked for the telephone company for 38 years!! I used to be a operator “0” and I called all over the world in the 80’s!!! And I loved it!!
I still have a landline and this would be perfect sitting in my shop/home.. I still work for the telephone co but I also have a vintage shop which I need help organizing..
I don’t know if everyone knows this but owls bring clarity into your life!!! So maybe he / she could help me !!
I love your channel and watch it religiously Laura!!! Xoxo
Look at Laura's solidarity w/females in business! Skater here too, Laura! You give me shiny hair envy. Gorgeous!
LOVE THE AWESOME OWL PHONE! We had a wall phone in our kitchen with the LONGEST cord so you could walk around with it. This was even before wireless phones! After a long chat with someone, I would always have to extricate myself from the cord that always managed to get wrapped around me!
When I was young my grandfather had a produce store and a farm. We lived a couple doors down and our house and his and the store and one more neighbor were all on the same shared line. We had to listen for our ring before we answered! The phone in the store was the kind that was wood and hung on the wall. It didn’t have a dial. You picked up the ear piece, pushed the cradle for the ear piece up and down to get a connection and then cranked a metal handle around several times to get an operator. When she answered, you spoke into this black speaker and gave her the number you wanted to call and she would connect you. The first three numbers in the call were read as a word and I guess that made it easier for the operator? Ours was ‘683’ and we said ‘Murray’ for that combo. My aunt still has that old wooden wall phone in her collection. Great video! I went to sleep and dreamed you came to my home town and we explored one of my favorite antique/vintage stores together!
Absolutely love the owl phone! Was shocked when you revealed it as a PHONE! wow! Good find!
I live in a 1980’s home and we have landlines in every room. I would love to bring back the land line phone. This owl phone is unique and I love it. I’m crazy about vintage anything. . this would be a “conversation piece” ha ha for sure. Get it conversation piece! I remember as a young teen, having to talk to my boyfriend in the kitchen. Thankfully we had an extra long cord so I would stretch it around the corner. Then one Christmas my parents bought me a Mickey Mouse phone for my room! Loved this video in my ol stomping grounds of So Cal.
Owl landline is so awesome. When I was growing up my parents got us kids a simple black phone. We just gifted grandkids a Mickey Mouse landline phone. We still have landline in our home. So fun watching kids experience a land line. This would be so cool to have in our home.
I not only had a rotary phone but I was on a PARTY LINE!! Ya had to know which ring was yours and if someone got a call at 3 A.M. EVERYONE woke up!! Right now I have my grandmother's red emergency wall hanging phone as a decoration. And I know that owl phone would be a perfect addition to the same wall. Thank you and God bless
This phone is amazing!! When 3 way calling was popular, I would have my best friend on the phone and call her crush on the other line. Once I called and acted as if I was doing a survey for the Sylvania light bulb company. I asked questions about their light bulb usage and how many light bulbs they had. You could hear him counting the bulbs in his house. It was hilarious. After he hung up, my best friend was so excited she got to hear his voice. Oh the good old days!!!
The minute you showed the phone My 8 yr old son was obsessed. He has been collecting owls his whole life 😁. Which all started with a set of owl lovies we got from a friend when he was born. He still has them. Fortunately, both his grandparents still have landlines so he’s knows what they are.
Hi I found your channel a couple of months ago a I absolutely love every thing you guys do I'm 13 years old and I collect all kinds off things I love the phone I have never seen one before keep the videos coming
Mushrooms with holes are for holding food on toothpicks for serving.
I love the owl phone. It is so unique. Great video as usual. My favorite phone was my sky blue phone that matched all of the blue bedroom decor I had a 10 gallon aquarium with fish like neon tetra and black mollies and blue rocks. My mom made the curtains and bedspread for my waterbed and bought unpainted bare wood desk and dresser and painted them blue and white. And my dad still has a phone from the 80s that is wood and looks old fashion and hangs on the wall dial phone. Thanks for sharing. My dream is to open a vintage shop. For now I’ll live vicariously through you and my thrifting channels. You have the most beautiful blue eyes too! Have a wonderful weekend!❣️❣️❣️
I grew up in the 50s on a small costal NC island. We had party lines. Each person on the line had a special ring that was their own. There were a lot of nosy neighbors that would listen in on other’s calls.
Hi Laura, what a show! I once had an orange phone. It was pretty cool. I also had a very vintage wall phone. But this owl phone takes the cake. You always have so much fun in what you do. Thankyou for sharing yourself and adventures.
Your vintage finds are unbelievable. I bought my husband a bright red Gumball Machine with the red flat phone fit into the side. Still have it but the phone is missing some digital functions. But it is perfect for us. The Owl Phone would be a great addition to our 70’s vibe. We still have a landline with the same number for over 48 years. As you can tell we are “keepers”. Lol
I still have a landline and love it. That owl is next level for a really different phone. I have a reallly cool phone that looks like 50’s diner and when it rings, it lights up and plays Bill Haley’s Rock Around The Clock!
The myrtle wood mushroom is for appetizers! Toothpicks in the holes with cheese!
I love the owl phone! I had a yellow princess trimline phone in my room as a teenager! I bought it myself after I started working and I felt so grown up to have it! My husband has a 3 Stooges phone still in the box. We got it many years ago and never set it up before things went cordless. Thank you for taking us on your journey! It was awesome!
as a teen in the 50s we had a wall phone in a hallway, where my sister or I would be sitting on the floor, feet up on the opposite wall talking way too long, according to my Dad. He would often walk by while waiting for a business call and hang up on us. We never realised it til we were waiting for a response in the conversation. I still have a land line and prefer it to my cell phone. Love the owl, he or she is gorgeous, looks very majestic.
I miss toying with the coils in the phone cord while talking. I love that owl phone, and Goods on Orange looked like such a fun shop.
My Husband grew up in Long Beach and we're going for Spring Break. We also go to Seal Beach which ia next to LB. We always go to Schooner or Later which is a restaurant and the outdoor eating area is so nice and the food is delish!
Love owls. What a cool phone! All I remember about landlines is stretching that cord as far as possible to get some privacy.
LOVE THAT OWL!!! I was born in 1952 & graduated college in 1974 so you can see I was definitely a 70’s girl. I even had tickets to Woodstock that I won on a radio show! We had dial up phones and I don’t think I ever did have a push button phone. I love that owl tho and what a conversation piece it would be! Thanks for your shows. My husband & I watch them all the time. We love mid century items. Love watching you put together your new home too! Keep up the good work. Ellen
Wow is that owl phone so kool, I remember when we got our first landline in our home in the early 70s. All my friends already had theres. I remember being at my friends house and her phone rang, and her mother said Brenda telephone...I was indeed shook, it was my sister telling me our phone was in...I ran all the way home at 10 yrs old, and started writing my friends phone #s down memorizing them...but I just started collecting owl, and would totally love to have, thanks for taking me back to remember such a great time in my life.
When I was young, we had a black rotary phone. Then a harvest gold colored wall mount phone. Also had a princess phone at one time. I also remember party lines. I'd love to own the owl phone. It's very cool! I love to watch your videos.
I've been so obsessed with your channel. You have awakened a love of bohemian for myself. It took your channel to solidify how much I have always been in love with it. Your jewelry is so stunning. I can only hope to find some amazingly beautiful pieces like yours. 🙏🦋
Hi Laura. Simply love the vintage owl phone.. Its unique..🦉🦉 my Mom loved owls & collected them, so I grew up with them all around. Im still in my childhood row home in Philly, 4 generations have lived here now.. We still have a land line, YES, with the SAME ORIGINAL PHONE #...!!! its unheard of.. I just cant part with my old phone #.. I remember party lines too, and, I was thrilled to get my own princess phone at age 16, way back in early '70's.. It was the BEST. Ok, please add my name to the drawing. Would love to own the owl phone, in memory of my dear Mom.. TY...hugs & luv..🆒♏🪐☮✝🔮✨🌙🛍💖
I love that owl phone so much. It's crazy how I can remember home phone numbers of childhood friends, but if you ask me their cell number, I have no clue. I just don't memorize numbers anymore! haha. I will never forget the turmoil of being a teen in the mid-90s and having dial-up internet... and having angst when someone got a phone call when I was online (or when someone wanted to go online while I was using the phone).
Yay!!! Love watching your shopping trips. The phone was so cool. I found a 1980s lips phone my daughter about 12 at the time loved it. Please make more shopping videos it really doesn't mater if you buy anything or not. I live in New Zealand your shops are incredible. My husband and enjoy these trips so much.
Your videos have inspired and taught me so much about vintage. I love your energy and approach to life. This phone is beyond cool. Growing up in the 90s, I was so excited when my parents let me get a phone jack in my room. I had one of the clear plastic phones where you could see all the colorful wires. It was everything and to this day, I'm sad I gave it away.
I'm in Long Beach!!😁😃
Shopping here is definitely different, don't you think? 😛 Nothing like your stores...
I have a childhood memory of things like those mushrooms used as holders for toothpicks with cheese cubes on the ends..
AMAZING...we do have a land line and I have collected a few vintage ones and this one is beyond AMAZING
That owl is very cool. I grew up with two phones in the house and if I wanted privacy I had to stretch the cord around the kitchen into the dining room as far as it could go and whisper while my sisters would continually yell that they needed the phone too. Memories! I live in a 60s house now and there is still a phone hookup in my kitchen! Love your videos 😊
Whooooo wouldn't love this owl phone?? It truly does bring back memories. It takes me back to the bright red pair of lips phone my sister and I shared in our bedroom. Does anyone else remember the busy signal, long before the call waiting feature was introduced? What a great video Laura, you have such a great eye for products and film.
I had that lips phone and definitely remember the busy signal. When call-waiting came along the World shifted!!😆
I love the little onesie you found. It’s so true - all we need is leave. Speaking of love - that owl phone!!!I Remember the Sports Illustrated tennis shoe phone? Or the Mickey Mouse phone and the fat valentine phone??? So fun. I was a teenager in the 70’s and talking on the phone was just the best!!! I remember (kinda fondly) I was talking to my boyfriend on the phone, which had a coil cord that was at least 10 feet long, and he said something funny. I had just taken a drink of my root beer and I laughed so hard, it came out of my nose!!!
🦉WHOO-izzit?! Lol 😂 Luv it! My grandfather had an antique "candlestick phone" (do a search!) in his bedroom - and it worked. I was mesmerized!
My parents had only one land line that was in that hall just by the lounge room . I had to sit on the floor for the very long conversations with my husband then boyfriend and my mother could hear everything . We are both 61 now and still married had three kids and two beautiful grandkids so far .
I love that owl phone and think it's one of the coolest things I've seen. I still have a landline and pay dearly to keep it. I remember rotary phones and playing jokes on people - like dialing random numbers and asking "Is your refrigerator running? The answer would be Yes, and we'd say, "better go catch it then". Silly pranks, thank goodness that was before caller ID
My sister started to work at a little country store. I called one day & asked if they had Prince Albert in a can (it was tobacco, for the younger generation). She said hold on & I'll check. I was about to burst before she got back to the phone. She came back & said, yes we do! I said, then let him out before he suffocates! That night at the dinner table I asked if she had Prince Albert in the can? She wanted to murder me 😁.
@@rhondaborders3452 That was a good one and made me laugh out loud.
Been an avid fan of your videos since 2020 all the way from the Philippines 🇵🇭. I’m hooked by your creativity and interior design skills! It’s always inspiring to see how one can curate, collect and recycle all at the same time.
Would love to have the owl 🦉 phone when we get there in April. So it can always remind me that I too can make a living out of what I love to do. 💕
I still have my landline outlets but currently not on a plan, but times are always changing. I love owls, they remind me of my parents and relatives growing up. I had the neatest phone in the 80s. It was the clear neon one that lit up with florescent colors where you could see the inside mechanisms. I wish I still had that.
Looks like a fun day in Long Beach! I love the owl phone! My phone growing up was the classic see through phone. 🙂
My favorite landline gotta be the sleek white princess phone I had in the teenage years...yep the 70's
Hello Laura, first of all I love your channel..I am also drawn to different and unique items. I have to tell you about my granddaughter I brought home a vintage phone that you have to dial for my office. My granddaughter walked in and said Abuela what is this I told it was a land phone from when I was young..she looked at me with such a face and picked up the handle and looked at the dial on the the phone and said how do you use this..so her mother and I showed her..she was laughing so much that it brought us to an uncontrollable laugh..I will remember that forever. I could only imagine if I won the owl phone and showed her what she would think..Thanks for sharing all your great adventures..
Love that owl phone. So many cool phones back in the day. Always fun watching your adventures, you find some amazing items.
That owl phone is FABULOUS! I need it in my life!😍😂What an awesome find! My favorite childhood phone was the sleeping Garfield one! We had the best 1980s/90s childhood memories!
Hi Laura…
Thank you for sharing the road trip to Long Beach, CA. I had to write when you asked about old phones.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. My family has had many old phones. Dad had a long wooden wall phone as well as a small box wooden wall phone. He also bought a house because of the wall phone (mustard yellow) with the rotary dial that still worked. Today he has an old black phone (weighs a lot) that sits on the counter that actually still works (rings). It even has the old cord still.
My sister and I had a Mickey Mouse phone and an orange ‘trim line’ that had buttons that lit up.
Love it. I used to have a fire hydrant type phone. Big and bulky
Great owl phone!! Wow! I remember having a long cord on our kitchen phone and sitting on the basement stairs with the door closed for privacy. 😊
I do love the owl phone. I remember having one of phones that would light up when someone called and it was see through. So you could see the fun colored wires. Great video.
The mushrooms are for appetizers on toothpicks (and I haven’t seen the whole video! 😊)
I LOVE the owl phone!!!! OH MY!!! I have to say....my first phone I had was a bright orange slim line wall phone with a super long coiled cord that could reach sooo far!! It hung in my kitchen and matched my amazing orange Tupperware canisters!!LOL. Every time I see one on a flippers show...I get all excited!! Love watching all your videos!! God Bless
Laura, thank you for taking us to long Beach CA.. how beautiful. I love the owl phone, I as well still have my land line. I have also had the same phone number for 22 years now.. it comes in handy when the power goes out. I should mention that I have old phones as well. Lol.. brings back memories talking on the kitchen phone and walking into the dining room and the living room, the cord would stretch for miles..lol.. the good Ole days.. thank you for the opportunity to win this cool phone. How fun, good luck to everyone. Love ya Laura...good luck with your sale..
Sarah, got you beat! I have had the same land line telephone number for 40 years and counting 😉
This is so amazing Laura! My shop is smiling ear to ear 😀 I'm so happy you visited and we got to catch up after all these years. I love everything you're doing and your passion for vintage. Until next time friend!
The coolest phone I ever had was a white Modern Scandinavian phone. I was watching an old James Bond movie and would you believe there was the same phone I had in my youth! The dial of the phone.... yes dial and the hang up button was on the bottom of the phone because the phone sat upright! I still have this phone! Maybe I should see about having it rewired to work in the yr 2022!
I've begun an online collection and this would be the perfect addition. I remember, this will date me, the phone at my grandma's that was all one piece. It stood on the desk and had a little hanger the earpiece rested on. When you lifted it, you dialed the numbers on the base. You could hold in to your hand while you talked. They may have been called a candlestick phone. Does that ever bring back memories! Great video. Lovd to watch. Today is my youngest daughter's birthday.
Thank you, Laura, for this all-inclusive video of your trip to Long Beach and the shops there. I love the owl phone. For one thing, I collect owls and I have an owl lamp. My favorite phone in my past was a pink princess phone from AT&T. It was an oval phone that had buttons instead of a dial. I had it in my 20’s and now I’m in my 70’s!
Owls of all kinds are cool. What a conversation piece. One wonders how long you could talk using this large phone, but I am willing to try. Thanks for the fun find. Sweet.
I have never seen an owl landline phone. How unique. I still have a landline for my work. My Mom loved the Ornate French Phones that were popular in the 70s. She'd call and say I'm talking to you on the French phone. I could picture her sitting in a comfy chair in the living room using her favorite phone. I am an Owl Lover for sure. And this phone is a rare find.
Growing up my favorites A pink rotary Princess phone in my parents bedroom., The yellow rotary wall phone on the kitchen wall, The black rotary phone with the extra long curley cord that stretched across the hallway into my bedroom! When we sold our parents house the landline was still operating. As an "adult" in my own home the combination touch tone phone with AM/FM radio. I still have a land line in my home of 45 years. Land lines operate even when the electrical power goes out. The owl telephone is a fabulous fine.
My husband is crazy about Owl items and we still have a land line phone. That phone is surely different and unique.
Omg!The owl phone brings back so many memories! My mothers bestfriendhad one....I had the clear phone! I miss those days! That's probably why I'm so into thifting..cause it brings back my great childhood 😭goodtimes... oh to be young again! 😆 🤣thank you for the videos! I get my goodwill fix when I don't feel like going out..lol
WOW thats really neat an owl phone I've never seen one and I have a crazy owl obsession. One of my favorite memories of having a landlines was having a clueless phone. You were definitely one of the cool kids with that baby. It had a pull out ear piece and you could change your voice 4 diffrent ways and push a few buttons and cher would as as if or whatever lol
As a child we had a super heavy epic metal phone from AT&T it was yellow and must have weighed over ten pounds (metal with plastic)-and we kept it well into the early 2000's- we probably got rid of it in late 2002 and not because it wasn't working-it was still in perfect working condition but whenever we had to make phone calls we had problems when automated customer service became the norm- you had to press 5 for this department or press 8 for this other department and we couldn't do it because our big yellow phone had that rotary wheel-so we had to stop using it. Sadly my mom got rid of without my knowledge about ten years ago. It was great because you could do a really dramatic hang up on someone when you were angry-love your owl its a hoot!! We love our landline-we have kept ours long after everyone else got rid of theirs-so I am over joyed they are coming back. Love your owl phone it would go great with our gothic boho decor-yes you heard it right boho gothic decor- it is a thing. We always enjoy your videos and were so pleasantly surprised when you were so supportive of our vintage selling endeavors. Thank you for your advice and kind words and we are so glad you found the home of your dreams and that you are creating wonderful new memories. Stay safe and enjoy your thrifting adventures. P.S. Love watching your boys Lorenzo and Jean-Pierre.
I even remember what we called our party line. You could hear everybody's ring and knew when they were getting a phone call. And to top that off, you could listen in on their conversation! You called someone by turning a crank on the side of the phone. Phone numbers were recognized by how many long rings and short rings were made. For instance our number was two short rings and a long ring. That owl would be surprised and pretty proud of the push bottom's he has.:)
I have always had a landline phone. That owl would be fantastic in my home. Love it.
I have gone vintage shopping with my niece and SIL at some of the shops you featured today and found some great things. It has become a tradition to have Thanksgiving at my brother and sister-in-laws home in L.A. and then go for afternoon tea at Chado's and vintage shopping on black Friday.