An old rotary phone purchased from an antique store in Monroe, Louisiana, is at home on a side table in 2024 even though it's not hooked up and doesn't work. BY JAN RISHER | Staff writer ...

But those who believe in wind phones say there is something to having this physical device as a tool. And for those old enough to remember rotary phones, it hits home in another way.

[Mnutt]’s 4-year-old son had no such problems when he saw rotary phones at an art exhibition, so what was a parent to do but wire the phone to an Asterisk PBX with shortcut numbers for calls to ...

I loved Jan Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's phone number, Jackson 8080.

An old rotary phone was unveiled at the Suffolk County Environmental Center in Islip on Sunday for grieving people to "call" their loved ones "on the wind." NewsdayTV's Steve Langford reports.

But I'm hanging on to my rotary phones just in case. If you and your 10-year-old's cell phones quit during a zombie apocalypse, let me know. I've got a couple of extra phones.

The first wind phone was built in 2010 in Otsuchi, Japan. Matthew Komatsu via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 My mother died in my home in hospice in 2020, on the day my state of Washington ...

He was mourning the loss of his beloved cousin, so he set up an old-fashioned phone booth in his garden with an unconnected rotary phone inside. It helped him cope with his grief. A year later, an ...

Leer en Español On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, cream-colored rotary phone sitting in a grove of trees outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield.