The wall plate in my kitchen is covered by small water color painting, oriental theme.Remember this? It may still be in your house although you probably haven't used it in twenty years or so.
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I remember Jackie Gleason, as I always liked him.
We used to have a two phones. One in my mother's bed room and one in the kitchen. After my mother died, we kept them for a few years, but ppeople couldn't reach us because I was always on AOL. Eventually, we moved on to cellphones. The wall plate in my kitchen was left unadorned.
We used to have both a wired landline and one provided over the broadband but the wired one failed and the providers wanted £100 to send an engineer out and the earliest appointment was in two weeks. That made us question why we wanted both particularly as there was also a monthly rental charge for the wired version. Callouts for the broadband provider was, and is, free so it was wired rental agreement that got cancelled that was almost ten years ago.
I remember party lines. Never owned one, but I do remember them.
The closest thing I ever had was picking up the phone in the kitchen and hearing my mother talking on the line in her bedroom.
right the first time!
It's hard to tell for sure, because the background of the image is too light a color, but I'm going to guess those are fireworks sticks. I never had them, and don't recall if they sold them in any stores in any neighborhood I've ever lived in.
Now that you mention it, that's what they called them here too.
I can kind of understand not having them in large citys like New York. A fire could easily get out of hand there. One of the things we used to do when we could get sparkers though was to buy rolls of caps and then set them on fire. They would explode as the roll burned.
