Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Awesome old gas stove sir.

Well much to the disappointment of my good friend pinklather I went with a cell phone. pinklather says his headstone will read:

Here Lies ****** ******
Born #### Died ####
Never Owned a Cell Phone

Basically for me it was a financial decision. To have long distance calling I could either pay per call or use a calling card (since I hadn't signed up for long distance with the phone company) which the latter I did for many years. Then I went with a phone from my internet provider for about $30 a month that had unlimited long distance calls but I also got a cell phone to use while I was out on my bike ($30 per month). That cell phone came in handy. However I paid that $30 a month when I wasn't riding.

Then the straw that broke the camel's back happened. We had a power outage and since my landline worked just like the internet I had no phone.

To make a long story shorter my oldest daughter put me on her plan and I'm very pleased with how the cell works/it's coverage is far superior to the previous cell providers and it's about $26 per month.

Those that know me and know me well are aware that I enjoy humor. So since I no longer had a landline I decided to go back in time and get a phone for display use only.

Here's the seller's pic;



I took it apart and basically gutted it leaving only enough for the appearance of a functioning phone from the days past/however I did make sure that the spring would still operate the return if someone would 'dial' ;



I'm not sure but I don't know if dial phones will even work with the new phone companies computers etc.

Did you hang it in the kitchen where a phone was made to be? Kids just dont understand.

BTW, did you upgrade from the flip phone? Ha.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Did you hang it in the kitchen where a phone was made to be? Kids just dont understand.

BTW, did you upgrade from the flip phone? Ha.

It's hanging on the wall where my old land line phone did.

You mean there are other cell phones out there other than a flip phone?

By the way, you do know what's inside the red circle is don't you?

Sure do , and my last number like that was lakeside 3711. Tc

Back in the day, there was a live talent show broadcast from Spokane (I believe that it was the longest running talent show in the USA). There was a 'Jingle' as a commercial for the sponsor "Boyle Heating Company'. Here's a quote from 1985 in the Spokesman Review:

By Erik P. Smith
The Spokesman-Review

There’s one sure-fire way of telling a lifelong Spokanite from someone who just moved here for the weather. Just ask the person to recite the Boyle Fuel jingle.

When you need coal or oil, call Boyle
Fairfax 8-1521
Fairfax 8-1521
For every heating problem,
Be your furnace old or new,
Just call the Boyle Fuel Company,
And they’ll solve them all for you.

I didn't have to look up the number I still know it by heart! In fact several years ago a coworker asked me if I remembered the show and I could recite the first three lines, then she finished the rest. I guess she has a better memory than I do.

By the way, I remember picking up the phone (with no dial on it) and hearing "Number Please" then you'd tell the operator the number and they would connect you to whoever it was you were calling.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

By the way, I remember picking up the phone (with no dial on it) and hearing "Number Please" then you'd tell the operator the number and they would connect you to whoever it was you were calling.

wow you're old Roy

Originally Posted by Dieseld

wow you're old Roy

And your point is?

Nothing really.......was just yanking your chain

Actually just 25 years ago they quit the party lines here where I live

Originally Posted by Dieseld

Nothing really.......was just yanking your chain

Actually just 25 years ago they quit the party lines here where I live

I know your just jerking on my chain and I liked it. I'm old, and there's nothing I can do about it. Well I may be physically old but the mind thinks it's still 1971 and I'm graduating from high school.

Oh I remember the party lines very well, in fact a couple of times I had the option of having a single or a party line and took the party line as it was less expensive. The only downside was the 'Rubber Necking' which for the young whipper snappers means that you could quietly remove the phone, cover the end that you talked into and listen to other peoples phone conversations.

Old family story. Way back in the day a couple of people were talking on the party line (I believe there were four different parties on the line including my great grandfather 'Wat' Davis) anyway one of the people said something and the other person said; "Be careful what you say, old Wat may be listening in" then a third voice yelled out "By God,The Hell I Am"!