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Rotary phones stopped their mass production during the 1980s when newer and more advanced phone models were entering the market. While contemporary models aren’t being made, many vintage rotary phones have been restored so they are in perfect working condition.
These six images were part of a series of photographs by Theodor Horydczak, all featuring the rotary-dial telephones in use at the time. Based on the technology shown, the pictures were apparently taken sometime between 1920 and 1930.
In the 1960s, one of the most distinctive features of telephones was the rotary dial. This mechanism, which is now considered antiquated, allowed users to make calls by manually dialing numbers. The rotary dial was a circular disk with holes corresponding to each number on the telephone keypad.
After their widespread adoption in the early 1900s, the rotary dial phone was the de facto telephone the world over. They became a part of everyday life and would even influence the English...
Rotary Dial and Touch-Tone Phones. In the 1960s, the rotary dial telephone was the standard in homes and businesses. Its design includes a circular dial with holes representing the digits from 1 to 0.
In the USA, at the start of the 1960s, telephones were generally the desk model with a rotary dial. Invariably in shiny black or possibly red, or “industrial” dark green. Around 1962 or 1963, phone designers started thinking about the aesthetics of the apparatus itself.
In this interview, Richard Rose discusses collecting vintage Ericofon telephones of the 1960s, and trends in telephone collecting in general. Based in Minnesota, Richard can be reached via his website, Ericofon.com, which is a member of our Hall of Fame. I like mechanical things.
Did you know the first telephone and cell phone were invented almost a century apart? Here are the oldest phones you should know about.
The old “Ma Bell” AT&T monopoly had launched all-digital dialing–phone numbers with no letters–and begun phasing out the use of exchange names by the early ’60s. A city as large as Los Angeles, where I grew up, would have many telephone exchanges.
The main function of the telephone dialer (at a time when telephones had rotary dials) was to make dialing easier, preventing sore fingers and chipped finger nails. Telephone dialers came in a variety of styles and materials, and became popular in the 1950s and 1960s.