I have to dial my own phone? part one

[blazingsamuri]

just wonderful...another woman in the kitchen....man life back then was great...

[marcsman229]

"oh this telephone gibberish, pretty soon they'll force them negros down our throats..."

[parkerquinlan44561]

Gramps reminds me of Harry Morgan D: RIP Col. Potter

[lucidwebpress]

But now it's gone back to how it was before. You talk to your smart phone and tell it who to call.

[SuperBrobo]

What do you bet gramps says "Yello" when he answers the phone?

[fishhead06]

I can't wait to see how it ends!

[edybeast]

"Gramps, I'm trying to solve this algebra problem! You're not helping! Shut up, old man!"

[LizKS48]

This was hysterical!! Loved it!! Loved the drama! When I was a youngen' we had an old cast iron phone. You could kill a body with that thing! ;D I used to play with the dial on it keeping my finger in the dial as it went back to see if I got a wrong number. We were easily pleased with play back then. I never got a wrong number but I did get a "talkin' to" for misusing the phone like that. Gad, to live in such a simple world again.

[Aquatica4]

That's yummy? That girl is very annoying.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

You mean all you had to do was ask for the number and they give you the person?

Wow!

When can I stop wasting my time dialing such long numbers?

[LizKS48]

@Morahman7vnNo2 My grandmother was a telephone operator in a small KS town and she would actually talk to the caller and ask how they were doin' that day before she put the call through. ;D

[lukebccb]

Ah the extended family. Grandfolks and mom & pops and the kids all living in a single household.

Nowadays when the grandfolks get invalid we send their asses to the old age home so they won't be no bother to us!

[MrJohanasBilderberg]

Mom is making supper.

Thumbs up for a sammich.

[frednora]

@MrJohanasBilderberg That's yummy

[frednora]

What did you say Gramps?

SHIT... I said SHIT!

[starlightsd2012]

i am still at wonder how cell phone work .... i think i am here at the lake making a call to the city land line ..... wow

[SpaceAceTX]

Our Grandkids will look at our iPhones and laugh. They will be like "Ha ha look at the phone Grandpa used ha ha"

[stowles1]

bet those local boys made some good overtime during that switch over, and they didn't even have to worry about their MSOC numbers, boy life was grand then...

[ajacobs31]

algebra sux

[EABeaudry]

What year was this film made?

[itsstillfriday]

I swear... I turn into Tom Servo when I watch old films like this!! :)

[talshiarr]

Wouldn' t it be "yummy" if the only things we had to worry about nowadays were algebra problems and that dials were being put on phones?

[analyzingfunny]

THESE are f'n great. It shows so much history and American.

[crazydog99007]

Int it odd that back then the ppl that worked 4 AT&T knew EVERYTHING about their system? And just yesterday, I was told by an operator that they were still a monopoly?

MY GOD! I have that telephone! right under the large dial!

[crazydog99007]

Int it odd that back then the ppl that worked 4 AT&T knew EVERYTHING about their system? And just yesterday, I was told by an operator that they were still a monopoly?

[MrJacMac1986]

Look how everybody dressed up back then for casual meetings back then. Today they wear shorts baggy jeans and t shirts and dont hide tattos

[MrJacMac1986]

Arent all the AT&T operators outsourced to India now?

[MrSammyReed]

These films seem to have been made, each one a little more updated than the last, over the years and probably decades! There's the silent film seen on YouTube as "How To Use A Telephone", from the 20's, and "How to Dial a Rotary Telephone" from the 30's. This one seems to be from the 40's or 50's. I wonder how long Bell kept making these updated films until all areas had dial service? Did they have to switch from making films like this to TV commercials to get out the message?

[dhart1977]

Back then: "We have to do this right so no one looses their service!"

Now: "Someone should be at your house between 8 a.m. and noon"!

My, havent we come so far with technology...........

[grafonolafavorite]

Ziptrivia,

Thanks for posting. It's fun watching. Landlines will not go away, not soon anyway. I won't want to give up my landline until I have to. I do have a cell tho. A lot of these viewers sound like central office and field techs.

Good guys. I started as an operator in 1969 & retired last year from phone customer service and sales. A lot of changes. Long live the landlines! Do have at least one hardwire phone in your residence in case the power does goes out.

[jerry5040]

Note to Ziptrivia: please post the year for this video. Surely you must know.

[GelandnaleG]

6:36am Friday (CEST) - Time in Budapest, Hungary

FCFjustputyournubinthatholeand­spinit I can tell you

where to go-

[gbnnn]

"Once you get used to something, they go and change it!" that's youtube!

[GelandnaleG]

2:57am Monday (JST) - Time in Japan

[lukebccb]

Oh, and given how fucked up Verizon and "AT&T" - which is actually shitty fucked up SBC - is who'd thought that we'd look back fondly on gawddamned Ma Bell?

[rennyminou]

Hahahahaha!  Love it. The original Crankshaft.

[HarborGuy]

When young a loooooooooong time ago we had a phone with the bell on the wall and no dial. You had to get "Central" to get a number. We got our first dial phone after WWll...........

[gunluva]

A phone with dials? That sounds yummy!

[wilde6060]

Was this aired as reel before the movies back in the day?

[Teflon65]

@wilde6060 Probably was a reel shown in the movie theaters, but who knows? They may have shown it later, on television.

[nexus1g]

They said that they'll be replacing the telephones. Did they actually provide the phones with your service back then?

[blob537]

That's right... There was nowhere to 'buy' telephones back then. Plus you were not allowed to install or modify it yourself... Good way to get your service cut off.

[geekforlifevandc]

yeah even in the 70's they still did that ever heard o f mts telephones?

[wilde6060]

The phone company owned ALL of the phones. The phone bill would have a monthly rental charge for you to have the phone.

[plateshutoverlock]

What?! I have to crank my own phone?!

[malcommerriweather]

"Oh Gramps, that's yummy!"

Gramps: "Come here ya little whore, I'll give you something yummy"

[midnightrealms1]

ROFL!

[kd1s]

The old codger must have been apoplectic when Touch Tone came around. Having to push those damned buttons!

[jdgator95]

"oh gramps that sounds yummy!" O.O

[UglySean]

That girl sounds like Ralph Wiggum

[Redwolven]

lol true

[wilkes85]

My grandma told me back in her day, the whole town had the same line, and everyone had their own ring style.

Hers was "one long, two short".

Haha, and I imagine it must have been fun to listen to everyone's phone conversations lol

[qwertz8484]

So my phone would ring whenever anyone in my town got a call?

What a pain in the neck!

[Teflon65]

@qwertz8484 No, your phone only rang when you got a call.

[thelyniezian]

Well over here in britian we must have had something like this- a guy at church talked about having to share a line with a neighbour and the embarassment of trying to make a call when the other was on the line...

[elgavilan2000]

and then crank calling was invented probably

[wilkes85]

yea... up until the early '90s when caller ID became all the rage... remember the Vista 1000? that was the end of prank calling. Kinda sad lol

[hakemon]

Party lines. I'm too young to have lived through it. I just got an old Western Electric 500 I'm restoring, and it was originally wired for party lines ringing system.. I had to wire it for ringing in bridged mode (todays ring system).

[kjclark1963]

Yup. Party line phones were typically wired for either "tip ringinng" or "ring ringing" where the ringer was wired to either (tip OR ring) AND ground. Non-party phones were wired across tip AND ring (what you called bridged mode).

We had a party line into the late 70s (FRanklin 2-2876). Then NYT replaced the old panel switch with a 1AESS so every line wnet private. Verizon has since replaced the 1A with a DMS-100.

[slingblade65]

I wonder what grampa would think of youporn ?

[wilkes85]

He would pretend to be outraged about it, and then secretly go on it lol

[Lumotaku]

@slingblade65

Lol we would call his freind and holler about the girls on it.

[mjh654321]

Thats yummi...I've got to use that one!

[bureX]

So much hubbub about putting your finger in one of them finger holes... Ol' gramps' head would explode if he wanted to use a plain telephone these days.

[Ncmountaindude]

Our family bought a cottage in western North Carolina in 1971 and there was an old phone book from 1968 and inside was a page on "how to use your new dial telephone" with diagrams and instructions! Prior to that time, you would lift the receiver and ask Sarah to get you the gas station-just like on the old Andy Griffith show from the early 1960's. Very quaint. We finally got touch tone dialing sometime in the mid 1980's!

[HarborGuy]

WE got our first dial phone after WW11 ended ........late l940's...........

[Renegen1]

WW11... wow, I pity the planet you come from.

[inkey2]

"oh gramps thats YUMMY".....lol

[Colortiniz]

Ah, shutzs.

[pegbars]

You have to consider how much of a transition this was, when as technical as most people got at home was switching the radio on.

[mubd1234]

But they had to tune to the station!

[rossman1rb]

Jumpin Jimminy, Why back in my day we didnt need dials on our phones, dadgummit! And we didnt have toys to play with either! We played with TWIGS and ROCKS! AND WE LIKED IT! (beeejeehosifats)

[djmarkcotter]

gee gosh golly! ain't that swell!!!

[LanIost]

Man, Grandpa seems so relaxed and almost how people act when they are old now. Must be a universal club or something.

The adults besides him seem so stern and stiff.

[Pantechnicon]

Now that I think about it, the town hall meeting to explain new tech to the hoi polloi is a good idea. Maybe if we did that today some of these old geezers won't freak out that the DTV transition isn't a sign of the apocalypse.

[r0bingoodfellow]

Pantechnicon

If our technology doesn't destroy the world first, you'll join the old geezer club one day...You make me roll on the floor laughing at myself when I was young and so quick minded like you.

[Pantechnicon]

It's kind of ironic to me that old Grandpa isn't more into the DIY approach.

[cadee123]

Where can you get this on DVD? I would love a copy

[grafonolafavorite]

@cadee123 dvd's are so a thing of the past. (but I did just have my vcr updated.)

[Plan9wood]

Wow those guys pulling the fuses are Devo.

[briancraig81]

@Plan9wood Those guys who are wearing the glasses were doing so incase of an arc-flash, from pulling the fuses out under a load.

[Plan9wood]

@briancraig81 Um, thanks. I figured it was for safety reasons. I was just trying to be funny. Maybe you have to be a Devo fan to get that one....or maybe it just wasn't funny.

[coffeehigh420]

they are going to a town meeting where they'll get a peak at the new iphone

[erod1944]

Talk about a scarey, "You-Can't-Cut-Back" Cutover! I'm still shaking. I didn't see the Yellow MOP Package though....Somebody's in trouble! I really expected to see little heat coils flying all over the place.

[dmine45]

These type of training films were shown in your local movie theater as either a short film before the feature show, or as a special feature so people understand the process of dial telephones. This was a major undertaking and a learning curve. Think of how computers changed things in the last 20 years. Many people were real skeptical about dial phones. I assume this film was from the 1930s. The switches looked like #1 crossbar, which was first installed in 1938.

[wmcintire]

I need some cool safety glasses like those guys pulling the fuses!

[craigsunny198]

these old bags of wind need to be sittn drinkn their prune juice and fartn up a good time.

[1987ian]

i hope they dont end landline service because i love using my 1960 western electric rotary phone! and it works on blackouts!

[pisces516973]

This was the era of American business competence and efficiency conducted and communicated in a fashion that respected and served the public!

[HartfordTommy]

What year was this? A new generation who never dialed before learns something new--and I mean the under-forties of today, ha ha. Thanks for the great film!

[clydesight]

What, no fav five? Poor old gramps!

[mubd1234]

DAMN! Their phone's old!

[parakeets4me69]

I'm 23 and i agree with what Grandpa said. "Once you get use to something they go and change it!" If he could only see us today. You get a cell phone and within a few months it's obsolete. Same with computers etc. I have a rotary phone that i use from time to time. The clarity is better then my cell. And the ole rotary works during a storm when a cell won't. Sometimes old is still pretty good.

[pisces516973]

I hope telephone companies don't end landline service during my lifetime. It was the only telephone connection that worked around Washington DC on September 11, 2001.

[MendotaTech]

@pisces516973 I don't think they ever will... cell phones are hooked on landline wires ... and landlines are more dedicated than wireless... just look at dsl and att tv and even fax service!!!

[geekforlifevandc]

@parakeets4me69 as a computer technitian thats not really true

[HunterMann]

@parakeets4me69 I agree. By the end of 2011 most people will be selling their iPhones at yard sales for $6 each.

[frednora]

@parakeets4me69 Well I agree with the little girl.  I think innovation is yummy.

[NipkowDisk]

Wow... the automatic dial equipment shown here- is it panel? No. 1 Crossbar? Just wondering...

Way cool. Thanks for posting this.

[dpeschel]

Crossbar, but I can't tell if #1. Don't miss "Speeding Speech" starting at 5:08. It shows switch details including magnets around the edges, and senders and other neat things.

Panel is in "Telephone and Telegraph" as you noticed. Brass rods move to sets of prongs and then clamp on. Like crossbar, panel uses senders. Unlike crossbar, each rod has a sequence switch (cylinder in shot of whole frame) that "rewires" the sender as a call progresses. It's all a giant asynchronous finite-state machine.

[NipkowDisk]

Looking at this a bit closer, it appears the system that was "cut-out" at 8:40 (probably stock footage) may be in fact a panel system. I like their safety glasses too... but I didn't see any on the crossbar bunch... hmmm...

[popeyecaan]

Grandpa pwnd the lurkers....

[toschie]

Oh grandpa!