Re: CHAT: postcodes

Quoting taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>:

Padraic slabronten:
> > My phone is rotory dial, for what it's worth.
>
> Wow, haven't seen one 'a those since the eighties! Neat!
>
> Hang on to it a while more and it'll be legible for a museum, and
> I'm not kidding! The old "grey" rotary phones that were everywhere
> during my childhood are only found in museums and retro-shops now.
Every summer as a child, I would visit my grandparents in
Waco for about two weeks.  On the wall of their small den, they
had a real antique: one those phones where the earpiece was
separate from the microphone into which you speak.  It looked
very much like this:

<http://www.andhowantiques.com/images/746a.jpg>

But I don't think it'd been used for the better part of 40
years.  Of course, the phone they actually used was rotary.

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