In a world before mobile phones, some of us remember the old rotary dial phone.
In my own home growing up, we had a retro, avocado green “Mad Men” style one where my fingernails would sometimes get stuck in the holes, and I had to learn how to use a pen to move the numbers instead, in true 1960s-70s secretary fashion…
Some books about the history of the telephone:
- Telephone and Its Several Inventors: A History by Lewis Coe
- America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 by Claude S. Fischer
- The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret by Seth Shulman
Here are some pictures of some old school telephones, as well as more recent replicas:
More vintage photos on these pages:
Here are some modern day, retro-style phones for sale:
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Cheers, Natasha
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