Rotary Phones

[Smellincoffee]

Born in '85 and coming of age in the 1990s, rotary phones were already antiquidated when I was a child. One of my aunts steadfastly kept hers, and it fascinated me. I've maintained an interest in having one, if only for my own amusement, but obviously they don't sell in stores anymore. Out of curiosity -- do you, or does anyone that you know, still use a rotary phone?

 

[JollyRoger]

I'm looking for a rotary attachment for my cellphone.

 

[civ_king]

I know someone who used a Bakelite until recently, my grandparents use one and when I have my own place I'll have a Bakelite for my land line

 

[NickyJ]

I wish.... But even more, I wish I had one of these:

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

I have a phone like that!
...But it's touch-tone.

I love rotaries, and given the choice, I'd use one.

A bittersweet memory of mine is from my early-early-early childhood (like, Age 3) when we went to visit my great-grandmother, a few months, maybe a year before she died. Most of her house is a foggy blur, but I will always remember a black rotary telephone on the mantle.

I'm looking for a rotary attachment for my cellphone.

Jesting or not, they actually exist.

 

[_random_]

I wish.... But even more, I wish I had one of these:

When I was a kid my mom would watch the Andy Griffith show with me, and I always envied those sorts of phones. My hipsterish impulse kind of wants to get one with some odd color-scheme.

 

[SG-17]

I have an old rotary phone that my grandfather bought after the war (WWII), but it doesn't work anymore. I think it was broken sometime in the '70s but my grandfather never got rid of it. He, and later my father, used it as a "play phone" when their children were toddlers.

 

[emzie]

Growing up, my phone number had five 9s in it. One of the non-9 numbers was 8. So it'd've been a hassle to dial with rotary.

 

[madviking]

I think my dad still has one. It's badass.

 

[SeekTruthFromFacts]

Your poll is missing the option that applies to me:

I know perfectly well what one is, and have used it many times, but not right now.

 

[amadeus]

My grandparents' house had a rotary telephone in their dining room. When I was about 10 or so, they also got a touch-tone for the living room. I think their telephone was probably from the late 1960s or 1970s; I looked up some old rotary telephones, but theirs was much larger than all of the ones I see in pictures. It was in their house until my grandmother died a few years ago.

 

[Zkribbler]

Although rotary phone make cool chooka-chooka-chooka sounds when you dial them, they're slow and they don't play notes. Today's phones are mo' betta'.

 

[classical_hero]

I don't have a rotary phone, but I have one that is similar to it, but rather than dial it, I just press the numbers on it. It is shaped like one, but not quite one. I have never heard of the term, but I have seen them before.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I had one up until a few years ago, when I moved out of the house. One of the people helping me move asked for it as a collectible thing, so I gave it to him. That one was a much older kind that was very heavy, with a lot more metal parts than plastic. You know those old detective shows on TV where you could kill somebody by knocking him over the head with a phone receiver? My phone was like that.

 

[Quintillus]

I need the multiple choice option...

My grandpa has a rotary phone that's been working for probably 40+ years now, so option 3 applies to me. Can't knock that phone for reliability.

But option 4 also applies, since I only have a cell phone at my place, and have no desire for a landline. Why pay more to be annoyed by telemarketers?

In the spirit of the poll I voted for option 3.

 

[Oerdin]

I haven't seen one since the late 80's and even then we made fun of the friend who still had it.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I had to google it. I don't have a landline phone, just two cell phones.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

The last one we had was thrown away about ten years ago. But I've rotated cell phones with my mom, does that count?

 

[Lillefix]

Born in 84. It took me a while until I understood that those phones were antiquated. I knew several who had them when I as younger. None now.

 

[Mise]

How do I just answer "no" in the poll?!

I know what they are, I don't have one now, I have a landline telephone (touch-tone based, rather than pulse based), and I don't know what the last option is supposed to mean.