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i love when i get a toll free call and they ask to press one and i can
I’ve got 2 of these in my house as our normal everyday use telephones. The one downstairs is a real classic, 4/53, with a bakelite handset and metal dial. The one upstairs is 5/70, newer, but in better condition. I love the ring!
I would say the black one is 50s or 60s. The metal dial was replaced with the plastic dial in the 60s. Those are great 500 sets!!!!
I have seen a cheap replica of these phones on ebay. lol
Two Great Examples of desk type phones that will never be made agian! unless we give China the molds!
Dennis @ A1 Telephone
My grandma had that same phone.. the beige one, but hers was more of a skin-tone looking colour. same ring too!!! I got goosebumps when yours started to ring LOL
I just love these old rotary phones.
my parent used to have a rotary phone like the stromberg carlson, but i think their’s was a bell atlantic.
When I was in school I did all the sound effects for the plays and I wired up a phone like this to ring…I used an audio oscillator at 20hz hooked up to a Panasonic stereo receiver which then fed a step-up transformer hooked to the bell.
Where the black one was used it was C&P Telephone. Not sure about the beige one but it did come from an eBay seller in California and appears to barely have any use. It uses more plastic parts than the black one does, but its still superior over todays phones.
The black one definitely isn’t a 70’s model 500. By the early to mid 60’s Western Electric had stopped putting metal fingerwheels on all black model 500s. All of W.E.’s rotary phones by the late 60’s and 70’s had plastic fingerwheels. Only DesignLine antique reproduction phones were sporting metal fingerwheels by the 70’s.
The black one’s definitely not from the 70’s. By the early to mid 60’s, Western Electric was no longer putting metal fingerwheels on black model 500s.
Who’s your local telephone company? I can give you a couple numbers to try to see if you can do what I do and get the phones to call themselves back. Which Baby Bell provides your home phone service?
the black western electric is sweet,metal rotary dial ! , i got a bunch of these old phones back when my father worked for the “phone co” i still use several of them . stromberg carlson was a knock off of the WE 500 back then but they are also good ,but the stromberg carlson business,multi line phones were just shit, they used paper parts inside and cheap plastic too, i replaced them with AT&T MERLINS,then took a reciever from a WE500 and smashed it to pieces with the handset, handset unharmed:P