I have several that still work but only one in use at a time. Buy them at yard sales. I even have a tan princess rotary, but they're rare. They just never wear out unless you drop them.

That's when they made things to last, yeah? Still has the emergency number orange sticker on the side! Wow! ah, memories........lol 'membah when you only had to dial 4 numbers to get your neighbor on the phone? 4858, that was our number. Thank John! That's great.

*yeah we never had a red phone , ours were black or tan then came the touch tone and cordless ones*

Makes me miss the Western Electric candlestick rotary phone I used to have. It was made in 1973 and I bought it for $20.00 at a flea market and used it about 10 years.

Those phones were built amazing well.

Hey john I've got one from 1978 got it out of an old cottage... Still works too lol

Wonder if you can still get "ring-back" when you dial the home number and then hang up? Use to drive my folks nuts, especially when I answered first and more or less talked to myself 'til they less than politely told me to not tie up the phone.

It cost more to have one of them around here, than it does to have a push button!! That's the only reason my old man got rid of ours in the 70's!!☺

Mine is 1959 western electric

Oh Gawd! Don't get Phil started on how he can't press 1 for anything on his rotary phone!

I had that in my first house in California but mines was green

No joke, back in high school I had to use a rotary phone because my cellphone battery died. I was walking home and needed to let my folks know that I missed the bus (again! :P LOL). I figured any public building would have a phone available, and sure enough, I found a church with an old rotary phone. It took me maybe a minute or two to get it to figure it out and dial the number. The audio quality wasn't too bad, all things considered. Keep in mind that this was when most payphones were being removed as cellphones became more and more popular. As far as I know, the church still has the rotary phone...and since most of the parishioners are older folks, they know how to use it ;).

sometimes when I was little I would picked it up and play dialing just to hear the rotary noise, if you know what i mean thanks for flashback....looks like a great house for some fried eggs and taters..before going fishing....

I haven't seen one of those in years! I barely even see home phones anymore.

My mom had that phone in her den my dad had one too in his den we use to sneak in our parents dens and use to talk on their phone we always never got in trouble

LMAO @ 0:35, "what the fucks wrong wit that".

Nope, I have the same phone in the kitchen, lol. At least two left ;)

John you want one of those phones? My father in law worked for the phone company years ago and has a bunch of them in the attic. If you want one Ill send you a pic. of what he has you can have your pick.

Press 1 for english press 2 for Lobsta...

As long as he keeps that phone, the telephone company will need to employ that woman with that headset, switchboard and all those wires..

lol, Things were made to last back then.

I have 3 wired in my house the voice quality is superior to the modern push button China made junk! Fun to teach kids how to dial a phone, some can not get it, others do it right off the bat.