It’s safe to say that few people still use rotary phones on a daily basis. Hell, most of us don’t even use landline telephones anymore. But just because these classic phones are no longer being used ...

We suspect kids today — and some adults — are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference that older ...

Janet McFetridge says the act of dialing a rotary phone really takes her back. "You’re at church and you’re calling for a ride home and so you dial that number and I’ll bet almost all of us remember ...

If you enter Arlington Park Cemetery, take a right and follow the road up and around a curve, there’s a gazebo. And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone. “I would’ve preferred ...

There are young people today who don’t have a clue what a rotary telephone was all about. They’re even more in the proverbial dark about the former existence of party lines and what they entailed — ...

Jacob Shannon (left) and Lynda Shannon Bluestein set up a "wind phone" outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, ...

I loved Jan Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's phone number, Jackson 8080. And even though I've had a cell phone ...

For the duration of my childhood, a heavy, black, rotary phone sat on the corner of my father’s desk. The handset rested in a sturdy u-shaped cradle, connected to the base by a curled cord. The paint ...

Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends. In July, we made a trip to Monroe to visit friends who took us to all sorts ...

You can use an old rotary telephone dialer in conjunction with your microcontroller to implement all sorts of things; for example, you could use it to enter a series of numbers to unlock a safe. You ...

On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, cream-colored rotary phone sitting in a grove of trees outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. She picked up the ...