I was about a senior in high school before the telephone association disbanded the old crank style phone system in favor of the rotary dial phones (circa 1965).
A number of years later I switched to push button tone dial phones and whenever I would then use a rotary dial phone I found them terribly slow awaiting the dial to return.
From reading mom's old diaries I believe they got their first phone (crank) in 1936.
As the old cigarette commercial used to say, "We've come a long way baby."
Can you imagine a high school kid having to use a crank style phone on a party line of 10-15 families on it in order to call a girl up for a date. Very tough thing to do. Perhaps needless to say but I didn't date much until the new phone system was in place.
I just got a new cell phone about a month ago. My daughter and son in law set it up for me so I, too, didn't have to do anything out of the box with it. lol I'm an additional family member on their account in order for all of us to save and share base costs, hence their picking up the phone and setting it up.
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