JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for August 06, 2023

And if you want to erase the cards, just pick up the rolodex and shake it like an Etch-A-Sketch!

“Okay let’s say it again: it would help me call people, but it but not directly. It was a stage in the process. Calling people was a multi step process. Not simple like it is nowadays.”

Really hard to butt dial anyone back in the days of Rolodex.

and hopefully, your handwriting was legible…

The twins still have a lot to learn.

Remember memorizing everyone’s numbers..?

Remember the rotary dial?

I once explained to my then teenage son that the elderly’s memory is like a rolodex. We’re not loosing our memory, as we get older we have more cards on our rolodex and it takes longer to find the card. His response was “What’s a rolodex?”

Instead of a Rolodez Grandpa had a long metal box with a slider along an alphabet on the side. When you pressed a button on the end it would open to the names and numbers under whatever letter the slider was one.

My husband still uses one of our rolodexes. It was a small house one – a little tray not a big round one.

He keeps his assorted passwords on the cards so he can find them!