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Tony[_19_]

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On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:13:15 -0400, aemeijers
wrote:

Jon Danniken wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
Some 15 years ago, I made a repair at the home of a woman and her
mother. The woman was 70 and her mother was 100 years of age. They
had a 1948 Western Electric rotary dial phone with cloth cords
that they were still paying rent on to Bell South.
If there's one thing I've learned about the phone company, it is that they
will never tell you when any particular charge or fee has become outmoded.

*******s.

Jon

Not always true. Yeah, they did charge rent for years, but a couple 3-4
years after letting people buy out their phones for around 30 bucks,
IIRC, they simply abandoned all the others in place. Didn't have much
choice, really- the WE plant had closed, and they no longer had an
operation in place to recycle them with fresh plastic and stuff. So if a
renter returned one, they couldn't do anything with it.

I'm old fashioned- I like WE phones, and detest the lightweight crap
issued since then. Glad I have a crate of real phones in the basement. I
used to pull them out of the trash at the apartments, or buy them for a
buck at garage sales, but haven't seen any in the last 2-3 years.

There are over 400 for sale on Ebay tonight and a lot of the more
recent ones are at $10 with no bids.

I still see them in garage sales for a buck or make offer.
I have a stack of them too and 5 are connected (one is a pay phone)
one still has the original TelCo phone number tag with my current
number on it. (different area code tho). That was a rotary phone that
was in the house when I bought it 27 years ago. It is hooked up in the
garage.
In true "illegal phone" tradition, only one of them rings ;-)

I don't understand the last sentence?