View Full Version : Ever wondered where old phones go?
KG4CGC
07-20-2008, 07:37 PM
Old Phone's Home (http://www.sonnyradio.com/oldphones.htm)
WA4TM
07-20-2008, 07:53 PM
Wow!! Talk about having spare time on your hands!!!!:D
KC9ECI
07-20-2008, 08:12 PM
I thought they all went here: http://www.phonecoinc.com/
I've done the fire inspection at this place a few times. I've told my family if I ever get paged out for a fire at this location to leave town and up my life insurance. If it's related to telephones, and it exists, it is somewhere in this building.
KG4CGC
07-20-2008, 08:14 PM
I thought they all went here: http://www.phonecoinc.com/
I've done the fire inspection at this place a few times. I've told my family if I ever get paged out for a fire at this location to leave town and up my life insurance. If it's related to telephones, and it exists, it is somewhere in this building.
Awesomely cool.
WB8MKV
07-20-2008, 08:20 PM
of course...they go to the "phoney farm"
K8ERV
07-20-2008, 09:55 PM
of course...they go to the "phoney farm"
OOOH! I could have gone all day without that one!
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
WA6MHZ
07-20-2008, 11:48 PM
I look at that and know "I COULD HAVE DONE THAT!!!" But then, I have to go to work.
N7RJD
07-21-2008, 12:25 AM
of course...they go to the "phoney farm"
OOOH! I could have gone all day without that one!
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
But luckily you didn't have to. :p
wa4brl
07-21-2008, 02:23 AM
I thought they all went to movie theaters to make the popcorn...
link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_dyD0Nsjw)
KC9ECI
07-21-2008, 02:33 AM
Awesomely cool.
They have a 'museum' area that the public can go through. I was passing through one day and noticed an old telegraph key. I started tapping CQ on it and was quite surprised to find that it was hooked up to a sounder on the other side of the room.
As a wordsmith, I wonder if we'll ever replace the verb, dial--as in dialing a phone--since we don't do that anymore. Suggestions, anyone?
I can't remember the name of the movie, but there was a cute scene where a couple of teens went back in time and one of them wanted to use a telephone; the only one the girl saw was a phone booth with a rotary dial phone. So, she put her dime in the slot, put her finger in the holes one-at-a-time as if it were a pushbutton phone, then couldn't figure out why the phone wouldn't dial.
K8ERV
07-21-2008, 01:01 PM
Did anyone reply? ( About the museum keyer, showed up here in the wrong place. Story of my life)
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
N3VMC
07-21-2008, 01:22 PM
I thought they all went to movie theaters to make the popcorn...
link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_dyD0Nsjw)
Uh no.
2 million views since may.....*sigh*
I trained my pet blackbird to dial a phone so he could make phone caws. The problem was, he kept dialing those 1-900 numbers so I was arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a mynah.
*ba dum dum*
VO1GXG
07-21-2008, 01:52 PM
Brilliant!
K8ERV
07-21-2008, 05:21 PM
You get the prize! Not sure what it is tho, maybe a shoe phone.
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo