Telephone Nostalgia Gifts

'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.'

Always leave the booth at the sound of the BEEEEEP!

Sculpture of a telephone wire.

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

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

Old and new technologies

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

"Yes, we do fix phones. But, what is that?"

'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...'

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

'Does it have colour?'

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

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

'It's called a digital watch.'

Wine stored inside an old fashioned monitor.

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

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

"I could never go wireless."

'You can see pictures - without an aerial?'

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

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

'I miss the days when the only thing I couldn't work was the video.'

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

Workers constructing barcodes

Al's computer salvage.

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

Wireless Access Here.

'I don't know what it is. It's been here ever since I can remember.'

'Who are you calling 'oldtimer', sonny?!'

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

'Inserting paper, lining it up, striking the keys, hitting the return carriage. I'd get him a computer, but he's doing just fine.'