11-17-2021 Wednesday Live Chat

When a good friend's Mom died a few years back, her home still had the original, black rotary wall phone (as shown above) in her kitchen. The phone was labeled "Property of the Bell System," so as he was cleaning out the house to sell it, he dutifully called AT&T (the Bell System successor) to ask how he returned the phone. The young woman he talked to didn't even know what a rotary wall phone was, so he was passed on to a supervisor. Long story short, after convincing them his call wasn't a joke, he was told he could keep the phone with AT&T's compliments.
 
Duke !
I wound up with an old black Bakelite rotary dial phone from when my Swedish relatives lived up in East Chicago. # Ivy 3642.
Property of Bell Telephone.
One of my favorite customers collects antiques and when he moved away I gave him the phone because it would go perfect with his old black Bakelite alarm clock.
(Bakelite is like an old fashioned thick black plastic.)