SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 17 hours agoIs it true that in "ye olden times" you could sit at a dingy bar and ask the bartender for a phone and they'd give you a rotary phone on a long as cord so you could make a call while slinging drinks?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up146arrow-down1message-squareIs it true that in "ye olden times" you could sit at a dingy bar and ask the bartender for a phone and they'd give you a rotary phone on a long as cord so you could make a call while slinging drinks?SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 17 hours agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
I’ve seen that in several 70s and 80s movies and I don’t buy it’s real. Wouldn’t the bar just have a payphone?
minus-squareLe_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·13 hours agomy babysitter had a corded phone in the middle of the house and the cord was so long and had a little stretch to it that you could get to all four exterior walls with it. standard probably 1970s suburb sized house.
my babysitter had a corded phone in the middle of the house and the cord was so long and had a little stretch to it that you could get to all four exterior walls with it. standard probably 1970s suburb sized house.