Ahh, those were the days...

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Does anybody have a current phone book?

 

Remember the guys who used to tear phone books in half on tv?

[Eyesa Horg]

We still get a so called phone book, but it's only about 5/16" thick including the yellow pages! I do miss the yellow pages!

I used to be able to rip the Hartford, CT phone book in half!! It was about 2" thick! Probably couldn't now!

[Texas Joker]

We got one a few years ago and the kids didn't understand until I told em it was an analog contact list.

[Texas Lizard]

40 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Does anybody have a current phone book?

 

Remember the guys who used to tear phone books in half on tv?

Yes, Superman......

 

Texas Lizard

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

 

[Will Kane]

3 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

Yes, Superman......

 

Texas Lizard

He tore it in half and then tore in in quarters!

[Trailrider #896]

4 hours ago, Texas Joker said:

We got one a few years ago and the kids didn't understand until I told em it was an analog contact list.

And most of them wouldn't know how to use a dial telephone. Fifteen years ago, while at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago, had my son-in-law show my then 3-year-old grandchild how to use one (mounted as a display!). I periodically ask if she remembers how to do it, and she says she does. Never know when it might be necessary in an emergency! Daughter taught her how to write in cursive, which most of her contemporaries can't! For that matter, I was taught cursive in a Chicago public school in the 1950's.  But when we moved to the suburbs, where the schools were supposed to be better, those kids weren't taught cursive! Go figure! 

[Alpo]

I was watching a video of some teenagers with a dial telephone. They have the idea of putting their finger in the number and turning it, but they would stop at 12:00. They wouldn't bring it all the way around to the little catch over there about 5:00.

 

I see people do things like that and I wonder if they were told to do it that way for the video. Because I have never ever seen a real box type telephone where you turn the crank to get the operator's attention. Never seen a real one.  Seen them in bunches of movies and TV shows. I know how to use them, from watching the TV shows. I know how to use a candlestick phone, from watching the TV shows. And I see all kinds of old TV shows where they're dialing a telephone. I cannot believe the children do not know how it's done. They may have never done it but they had to have seen it. I've never cranked a Model T but I've seen it done. I bet I could do it. Might take me a minute to figure out where to set the spark, but I bet I could do it. I've seen 'em do it in old movies.