![]() That phone was still in the garage when they moved into a retirement community in 2016. He took great satisfaction in making things as complex and convoluted as possible. ![]() Somehow, carrying a cordless handset out there or leaving one out there on a remote charging cradle was too simple of a solution for him. He put it in the detached garage behind the house. The last Western Electric phone I remember being in service in my family was a green 1960s vintage wall phone with a permanently connected handset cord that my dad proudly paid 50 cents for at a church rummage sale. I don't know whatever became of it but for a long time I had a 1957 vintage black Western Electric desk phone with a metal rotary dial and a handset cord that was straight, not curled. I don't collect phones either and I'm not about to start but I'm old enough to remember when Western Electric phones were the only ones you could get because AT&T's government-sanctioned monopoly made it illegal to connect any third party equipment to their system.
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