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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
heh. i still have a phone with a cord as well, in case of electrical failure. and i also have a really old phone with a round dial you have to turn (remember those ??) and a second earpiece on the back so you can share the conversation with a friend, but i can't use it as my main phone, because at the time they were made, the ringer was in a separate box on the wall, and i don't have that box.  (anybody remember that ?) |
Can you even use that turn dial? Those things became useless when they went from pulse to tone... I do have one somewhere too...
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i also remember when my east german friends told me they had to wait maybe a year to get a telephone installed in their house. this was about 15 years ago. they had to use a phone booth in the street. there was one (in dresden) which was broken, so you could telephone even long distance without paying, for as long as you wanted. there was always a long line for that one. |
Which reminds me, do you remember when there was a stone and iron fence in Europe?
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Originally Posted by Dylrob
Heh... Looking in my wallet today, I remembered when US currency was only one color.  |
I remember when the Dutch currency was colourful...
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
oh yes, i remember the special airmail paper ! and the envelopes with the red and blue stripes around the edges, so you could see right away it was an airmail letter. and the little blue stickers "par avion" which you put on them.
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Mine had it printed on the envelope!