We suspect kids today — and some adults — are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference that older ...

Janet McFetridge says the act of dialing a rotary phone really takes her back. "You’re at church and you’re calling for a ride home and so you dial that number and I’ll bet almost all of us remember ...

If you enter Arlington Park Cemetery, take a right and follow the road up and around a curve, there’s a gazebo. And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone. “I would’ve preferred ...

There are young people today who don’t have a clue what a rotary telephone was all about. They’re even more in the proverbial dark about the former existence of party lines and what they entailed — ...

[Yaymukund] made an interesting observation. Old-style rotary phones were made to last and made for service. Why? Because you didn’t own them, the phone company did. There was no advantage for them ...

I loved Jan Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's phone number, Jackson 8080. And even though I've had a cell phone ...

The other day I opened the comments section beneath an article in The Wall Street Journal. I usually don't open comments sections except by accident, but I was looking at a fluffy article--the top 10 ...

Dialing a rotary phone, waiting for a page to load, sending a handwritten letter. Before instant messaging, streaming, and 24/7 notifications, life naturally required patience and presence. According ...

Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends. In July, we made a trip to Monroe to visit friends who took us to all sorts ...

This 4-port rotary phone USB hub reminds me of this teacher in my junior high school that enjoyed “talking” to her husband on a toy telephone during class. She also named her rings and kept them in ...