1963 push button phone

[opelgtguy]

The Seattles World Fair was in 1962.

[DarthSchwartz]

so easy a girl can do it.

[DarthSchwartz]

OMG I NEED ONE !1!!!

[HeartWonderland]

The logo at 0:01 is actually pretty modern.

[tkoizumi]

oh.... I've always wondered what the pulse and tone lever was for in the old phone we have in our attic lol

[Zoomer30]

Heck, my Mom told me when she grew up they had a PARTY LINE whereby other people in other houses could listen in.

[tomloft2000]

another plus was that you only had to dial 7 digits.

[hombrerelents]

1963?? Damn, we didn't change 'till the mid-80s, and even then the push button phone we had relied on pulse dial.

[XTrevvion]

lol the arrangement of the numbers look more like the ATM

[1952kid]

years and years ago on a far away planet, we had a prefix , like ;Fieldstone 7 -3551 , you would dial . FI 7-3551 . If someone asked for you phone number you would answer '' fieldsone 7-3551, and they knew it as FI 7-3551 . 1950'S AND 1960'S nyc.

[gardnerbm]

What? no caller id??

[BennyB5555]

@HD8Track - LOL I never laugh out loud when reading stuff and this time was an exception! Too funny! Yes, Marilyn Manson jumping out would be the icing on the cake. Maybe do a little 3 way calling and send them over the edge! Haha

[poodtang1]

What's really sad is that almost everyone in this commercial is probably dead.

[thebeatlemania182]

@poodtang1 oh crap i never thought of that .........but the kids may be at least 63 64 65

[NoIDidunt10]

LOL at 0:05 lady to far right has a who gives a s*** look on her face

[49jubilee]

the boy let the girl use the pushbutton phone BECAUSE they believed in LADIES FIRST!!--even so, the Bell System did NOT have the capacity to put everyone on the touchtone system until the late 70s--and this was the penisula (San Francisco Bay Area) even the WEALTHY could get one!!

[KandymanMusik]

"...the new way" sounds a bit eerie doesnt it? lol sends chills down my spine...

[rockabillycat1954]

@KandymanMusik very orwellian.

[HD8Track]

These kids are too happy. Too bad Marilyn Manson didn't jump out from behind the curtain scaring the shit out of them...welcome to the future!!

[Lordmij]

@HD8Track LMAO, That was a good one!!

[RadcliffOfCrymod]

MST3K did this a while back, LOL! God I miss that show.

0:01 - (Servo) PUSH BUTTON PHOOOOONNNNNNIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN­G!!!

0:19 - (Mike) And in 30 years, there will STILL be a $2 surcharge for this service, despite the technology having proliferated EVERYWHERE ON THE PLANET!!

[eee11112]

@RadcliffOfCrymod Ah, golly gee! That show was swell. I miss it too. :/

I catch up with it here on YouTube often though, but I wish it were still on TV.

(P.S. The "golly gee" and "swell" were... well, I don't know why I said it, really. Oh well!)

[QuinnnMallory]

The two teens must have determined beforehand which one of them would use the push button dialing and which would use the rotary dial.

[cobrachoppergirl]

Jane Barbe with an 'e' ;-)

[cobrachoppergirl]

@cobrachoppergirl Look for a Youtube video on here, "Voice Mail Jail" or also look up Pat Fleet on Wiki.

[itshammer]

stupid teenagers and there push botton phones...What next women voting

[UglySean]

Talk about cutting edge. "Pretty sneaky, Sis" um, wrong commercial. Try something like *67 against a dial phone.

I know, the cheater's method is 1167 but don't tell anyone.

[visor109]

That kid should have known her phone number was Beachwood 45789

[rossman1rb]

They had this same setup at Disneyland in the '60s at Tommorowland- right next to a big lit-up tic-tac-toe game where the best you could do was tie the computer.

[djvinnypearl]

my cousin was always winning concert tickets and such on the radio because they had touch tone before we did.

[Teflon65]

I think offices and other workplaces were where I first saw touchtone phones.

[OneWayTrip1]

How did they know which number to call? he could have dailed 1-1-1-1-1 and he might have won.

[techcomputernerd]

It was written above the telephone

[visor109]

A classic would be when she said " I beat ya!" his response should have been "Pretty sneaky, Sis!"

[HelmutVillam]

she beat you boy, hang your head in shame

[someguy23475]

Push button phones? That'll never catch on! :)

[1952kid]

I just bought two 1960's rotary dial phones for my home , green and tan. Bell system phones ,still work great. i got tired of replacing batteries. I kept one cordless to '' press one for engish'' .

[DA90027]

1965 was really the first year you use them. Only wealthy had them as they were much more expensive.

[mubd1234]

OMG Push button phone. Damn, these things come in quick.

[cris8555]

those people are really creepy xD

[wrsawy]

The dude hanging with the chick is acting like he's having fun. But in reality, he just wants to get laid.

[VertexCom]

...and didn't have to get all her digits

[Alprazolam]

the woman introducing the bell system's TTDialing is the same woman jane barby who did.... if you'd like to make a call please hang up and try your call again if you need help please hang up and dial your operator, and the timeless favorite we're sorry your call did not go through will you please hang up and try again...thank you

[thecooldude9999]

@Alprazolam its jane barbe and shes dead.

[qbsacker5394]

i bet that girl fucks tough!!

[doomer79]

And I bet you're a rude kid in his 20's? Let me look! Yep!! I guessed right!

[scotpens]

I didn't know Touch-Tone was developed that early. Most areas of the U.S. didn't get pushbutton phones until the early 1970s. It must have taken several years to convert all those phone exchanges to handle the tone system.

[mubd1234]

The push button phone there was a pulse dial. There was no star or pound (hash) button.

[mubd1234]

oooh shit. I just remembered that the woman running the stall said "this is the bell system's new touch tone dialling!"

[An805Guy]

Those buttons were added later since there was initially no practical use for them.

[Bspacewiz2]

fair was actually in 1962 :)

[AmorDeDonPerlimplin]

Which means that all the actors appearing in this strip are now in retirement home and keep their denture in a drinking glass, meanwhile having phantasies on the past :D