The Grizzwells by Bill Schorr for October 24, 2017

Maybe the teacher is not old enough to know. OTOH, I have no idea how to work one of those dial-less cards.

I don’t think the cord will be long enough.

Unless the teacher is around 50 years old this is going to be fun to watch.

My 80 year old Mom, a former Michigan Bell Telephone Operator, can still sit in front of a telephone switchboard and explain every cord, button and switch. Museum curators usually try to capture it on video.

The first telephone I ever talked on was an Oak cased, crank, wall phone on a party line. The phone company retired the lady with the switchboard in her living room and installed an automatic phone exchange a year or two later. Many people had to be taught to use a dial phone.

Still have a rotary. Was told that in an emergency, it is possible to dial 911 and get a response.

The earliest style that I remember was the so-called candlestick phone. That was soon enough replaced by rotary phones, and then push-button phones. Now, landlines are obsolescent and almost everyone has a cell phone ( or a “mobile,” as they are called in some European countries).

Have Show-and-Tell fun, Fauna and Tucker!

I still have my land line phone cause it will work when the power goes out! Cell phones often aren’t reliant in rural areas.