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Bought this lineman's (guys that climb poles) phone for five bucks at the Habitat for Humanity store. No idea what to do with it (I haven't had a landline for a decade) but the 70s-80s sci-fi aesthetic is wonderful. I can just imagine picking it up and hearing Han Solo's death star intercom conversation coming out. Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
#starwars #scifi #props
@kbsez @jstevenyork
Yep. Phone co was my first job after high school. Climbing up & down all the shift with a Northern Telcom (Canadian!) butt set clipped onto my jeans' belt loop.
@503bartley @kbsez
Did yours actually still have a dial on it, or was this just the first pic you found? The dial versions always make me think of 1960s sitcom "Green Acres," where the rural phone company only ever gets as far as running the phone to a pole outside their bedroom window. This is a much older model in black Bakelite plastic with a dial in a big, clunky, housing. The one I have has a switch for tone or pulse (where the dial switching hardware was all that was available) dialing.
@jstevenyork @kbsez Mine did, indeed, have a rotary dial. Also had an Ericafone rotary phone at home
