Telephone Historians Gifts

If you're calling from a touch tone phone, press "1." If you're calling from a rotary dial phone, are you aware that touch tone phones have been around since November 18, 1963? Just sayin'.

'Yes, as a matter of fact, you have caught me at a bad time.'

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

Phone. Oh, no! My Clark Kent clothes are gone! Secret Identity Theft.

'And now for the anesthesia: I've got plenty of conventional anesthetics I could use here but you can also choose to spend half an hour on the phone with my mother...'

'Can't talk now, I'm just going into a tunnel.'

'Environmental dept? Yes, just a query. It's August, it's 85?. It has been for 3 months now...'

"He'll come to eat when he can interrupt dinner. He's playing telemarketer."

'If you don't mind, I'm trying to use the telephone here.'

'He's so behind the times - his Hot Line is rotary!'

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

The early version of accidentally hitting 'reply all.'

Bell on early phone: 'I know it's you, Watson - stop trying to sound like Edison!'

Hello, 911? … The pizza place isn't answering their phone!!

'This is a prerecorded message. Thank you for rubbing me. Please state your name and your wish. I will get back to you as soon as possible.'

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

Owl answers telephone.

Look, I'm not shocked. It's just that you sounded a bit different on the phone!

"If you are calling from a rotary phone, you gotta be kidding!"

Woman dresses up to talk to a suitor on the phone.

'Well, it's been nice talking to you, even if you are a recording.'

"Baldo, let everyone know that Tia Carmen is in the hospital!"

Alexander Graham Bell - invents the telephone and makes the first 1900 call.

"No, it's not valuable it's just a conversation piece."

"Could you keep it short, Daddy? I'm expecting a call."

'Hello, is that the Compulsive Callers helpline?'

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

John's Early Attempts at Direct Messaging Proved Futile.

"Only half an hour - that was quick! Was it a wrong number?"

"And I'm telling you you've got the wrong pole."

'Yes, I'm writing the message down.'

The First phone call was not exactly as history books report it.

"We heard you say you're worried about the government listening to your phone calls so we called to tell you not to worry ... yet."

Private Phone Calls

"I'm sorry, all the emergency services are busy at the moment - please hold."