Lucy shows her rotary phone

[DavePEI]

Video from the Nashville Telegraph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9-QYo7Vr9rs

"Published on Apr  3, 2014
  "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is Lucy's take on the rotary phone she uses at her Lyndeborough home.  The phone was installed in the 1950s when her late husband became fire chief.  It's been in use ever since and she has no desire to get a replacement."

Dave

[Mr. Bones]

Thanks for the great post, Dave!

     The telephone is interesting, having a rural dial plate. Lucy is quite interesting, on her own. She very much sums up how I was brought up, and still am, today; "make it last, make it do!" My parents were born in 1922, and 1933.

Best regards!

[Dennis Markham]

That is a nice story, but I don't think it was installed in the 50's.  #9 dial, clear plungers......but the story is the same.  Thanks for sharing that, Dave.

[DavePEI]

The full story is available on:

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1033317-469/dial-n-for-nostalgia--but-rotary.html

It, however is a subscription site, but there may be a free view option.

The reported mentions the upgrading/downgrading of the telephone system that will eventually spell the demise of pulse dialing.

Dave

[Scotophor]

I wonder how much of that time she rented/leased the phone from the phone company -- is this another example of a $14,000 telephone?

BTW, I did the math myself and if the amount charged was constant (at the corrected figure of about $10/month), the total comes to a bit under $5000 for 40 years, not the $14,000 claimed. But if you figure in inflation from those early years...