[Leica] Grandma's phone

[Chris Crawford]

This one my grandma has is unusual in that it does not have a built-in
ringer! There is a white square box hanging on the wall a couple feet
above it, which is an external ringer.

I didn't realize that it was part of the phone, my dad told me later. He
is a retired telecom tech, and he installed the phone in the garage for my
grandparents. When it was in the house, they didn't have the ringer box
because there was another phone in the house that had a ringer built-in.
My dad obtained an old ringer-box that he installed in the garage with the
phone.

He said the phone model here was originally designed as a business phone
to be used just for calling out, not for receiving calls, which is why it
had no ringer. The ringer-box was an option, and the phones became
somewhat popular for home use with it. They were made from the 1950s up
till around 1982! This is an older one, because it has a metal dial-ring,
while all the ones I saw photos of online had plastic dials.


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On 8/12/14 3:53 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

>That is one I have never seen before, Chris.  Interesting.
>
>I have rural party line phone in the attic, but, unfortunately I removed
>the working parts during my years of teen-age curiosity about the
>hand-cranked magneto.
>
>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>On 8/12/2014 2:47 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Yesterday evening, I visited my grandmother and photographed the ancient
>> telephone in her garage. When i was a child, this telephone was in her
>> kitchen, but it later moved to the garage after my grandparents bought a
>> modern phone for the house.
>>
>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=1952
>>
>
>
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