Like old phones? There might be a telephone show at a town
near you.
Check
out the Antique Telephone Collectors Association website
for upcoming telephone shows on the
events page.
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PHONE
OF THE MONTH
is the
Western Electric Trimline telephone.
First
introduced in 1965 it included a lighted dial (powered by
a seperate transformer that plugged into an electric socket)
and a sleek, curved plastic housing. This was the first
phone that was produced in both rotary and touch tone from
the beginning of it's production. The Trimline's dial was
located in the handset itself with the ringer and electronics
within the telephone's base.
Photo ©Chuck Eby
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