Not to be confused with Joe Hill's "The Black Phone", but okay, I really do stumble upon some wild stuff sometimes. Take for example this old, yellow rotary telephone adorned with a bikini-clad, 90's adult movie star inserted in the center of the dial. It's right here where I would totally crack a "let your fingers do the walking" joke, but eh, that was actually for the Yellow Pages phone book. Annnnyway, did I buy it? No. Do I know the actress's name? Maybe... but I definitely don't know her number. And did I wash my hands thoroughly after touching this phone? You bet.
Batman has his Batphone
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This phone is either the 'I am Curious (Yellow)' phone or The Mellow Yellow line.
I wonder if the original owner of this phone used tis for dial-a-date, or the adult lines advertised back in the late eighties/early nineties. Or dial-a-prayer for the dateless and desperate. It might be a longshot, but maybe this was the phone for an adult store, anything is possible.
To tell you the truth I never knew Ma Bell offered anything but black phones, they might have loosened up after the breakup and the creation of baby bells.
Thanks for another glimpse into the antiques available in your area, you never know what you can find antiquing
I still remember the sensation of these old phones, putting your fleshy appendage in the tight hole and slowly, slowly turning until you could force it in no more and then letting it sweat as you keep your finger against the rock hard stop and then letting it roll back in a moan of noise; only to do it again, much, much faster this time.
ReplyDeleteHah! If I'm remembering correctly, that space was reserved for a sheet of paper with the pre-printed area code and a line for the customer to fill in his or her own number by hand. I can't believe that it never occurred to me to put some other picture in there. By the time I was old enough to do something like this, most of my friends had push-button phones already. We had a rather more old fashioned style of phone in our house (still rotary, but the kind where you hold the speaker and mic in separate hands--totally a kitsch throwback to the forties and not a real antique), but both sets of grandparents still had these standard models (one was still on a party line in my early teen years), and I coulda been pranking the hell out of them all through my tweens. Sigh. Missed opportunities.
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