fun toy

[cellio]

Dani got me something very similar to this for my birthday:



(I stole the image from All Funky Stuff, which does not have individual product pages. I couldn't find a photo of exactly the one he got me, but this isn't far off.)

Yes, it looks very much like a phone from early in the last century. It looks at home on my ancient wood desk. It's actually digital -- that's not a dial; those are push-buttons. The center of the dial is a redial button. Spiffy!

Comments

[sekhmets-song.livejournal.com]

That is spiffy! My sister got a replica phone in the mid-eighties that looked similar, but was rotary. The thing was a pain in the ass to dial. Smart that someone came up with the right look, but digital.

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

I actually have a rotary telephone on my desk. Walt gave it to me as a present when we were dating because our conversations kept getting cut short when my cordless phone ran out of juice. This never happened with the rotary phone, but of course I sacrificed portability. Oh well. :)

[cellio]

I still have a rotary phone in a closet somewhere. It worked the last time I tried it.

I assume that your loss-of-juice problems would have been solved by any wired phone, not just a rotary one.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

I still have a working rotary phone in the house. It's not used often, but if Verizon ever screws up the line such that DTMF (touchtone) stops working *again*, I can plug in the rotary phone and still be able to call out.

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Yes, any wired phone would have worked. He gave me the rotary for novelty purposes, sort of, though it feels a bit strange calling an old-fashioned phone a novelty.

[alice-curiouser.livejournal.com]

Nice! I love old phones.

[jarethsgirl.livejournal.com]

that's really spiffy! My mom had a crystal phone kinda like that, only the base was round. I think it was digital too.