Vintage Telephony Gifts

"So your calls are monitored. Just think of it as an old fashioned party line."

Playing in the park....child on a leash.

"'APP'y Birthday!"

'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.'

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

'Sorry, guys. I can't go out. I'm grounded.'

'Hello, ACME Exterminators,,, ,,,Hello'

"Cool phone features of the 90s"

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

"In my day we had trimphones."

'Yes, this is us speaking.'

Leave it, I never answer the landline anymore

"I think you need to update your mobile device."

"Oh yes, here it is, early morning call 7:30...I can't imagine how we overlooked it Mr Van Winkle!"

"Hello. This is the old man across the street. Get off my lawn!"

Calling Home, "I'll get your mother..."

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

'Help! As a contrarian I invested in rotary and supersized phones.'

Female impersonator hogging the phone box.

'Sorry, I really need to take this.'

Ballot Boxes and Smoke Signals

Always leave the booth at the sound of the BEEEEEP!

"Oh no, here comes another one of his 'back in my day' stories."

"Smartphone? What's that?"

Dial M for Mummy.

Sculpture of a telephone wire.

Endangered Species

"I should warn you, I'm expecting a call."

"Nothing important—nothing on fax, nothing on voice mail, nothing on the Internet. Just, you know, handwritten stuff."

'Hello, Billy I thought I told you to turn off that cell phone,'

Woman wanting to send a telegram.

"How are we going to sell more landlines?"

LOVE your retro phone chic!

'You tned to forget how big and chunky they were!'

'Did you hear they fired Jake? He was caught using e-mail.'