Sketch Tuesday

Over at http://www.theshadesofpinkblogspot.com/ you can view sketches of phones.
I find this amusing, as phones have changed so much, since I was a kid.

This is exactly like our phone, from 1956. I wish I had a rotary dial one now. David has such a hard time with buttons, (he has no feeling in his fingers). So maybe I will ask Santa for one.

So here goes,

Our phone was a black unit that sat on our telephone table.
In fact the furniture industry built phone tables expressly for the Telephone. It was a Telephone not a phone, not a cell, not a camera, A simple Telephone.
The telephone table was usually just a small table, nice height that would hold the telephone and beneath it was a small shelf for the telephone directory.
Our directory in Sheridan Arkansas was pretty small, about the size of a comic book. All the telephone numbers were four digits. Later they added things like "Call Cherry (CH) 9242."
That was the numbers you dialed but that was in bigger cities like Pine bluff Arkansas.
One day the town of Sheridan had to add a 2 in front of the numbers so now it is 5 digits long.
Later they had to add 94 now we have 7 numbers to dial. (I still remember our old number)
Changes are so good or are they?
Simplicity is over.
Next technology for us was going to be a cell phone to use in the car. That to us was the height of luxury. To be able to call from the car and look important. LOL
Our phones had a definite Ring Ring.
when we played telephone, (yes a game) we would call someone and would say," Ring Ring." Now what do kids say? They have to think of a song to sing to the telephone ringing. LOL

We did not have a song to warn us or a buzz , no just a ring!!! ring!!!!.
Our phone was simply that, a way to communicate in emergency or to just chat. (but not too much).
We also had a party line, Meaning several people used out line. I could call my friend and have another friend call and we could have a three way conversation simply by picking up the phone.
One day Charlote Carter, (my doctors daughter) called me and told me to hang up and pick up the phone in two minutes, she then called Helen Fletcher and I picked up the phone and we had a conference call. It was fun. This was in 1962, way ahead of the times.
Or phones never took pictures or videos. Our phone had one use. And it was easy to hold on to and it was easy to dial, The dial was a spin dial, not push button.
So Technology has caught up so much and I am sure Alexander graham Bell had no idea what his invention would turn into.