It *might* be Bakelite, but it looks like it was late enough to have a modular
plug for the handset, which suggests it's probably a later plastic.
A really neat phone to look out for is the transitional piece where the rotary
dial was replaced with a "dial" that had buttons in a circle around the front.
The numbers were in the same position as the finger holes in the rotary dial.
I see a lot of reproductions, but the real ones are kind of scarce. (The
reproductions all have buttons for '*' and '#' which the real ones didn't have.)
Then they went to a 3x3 with the '0' centered below the '8', before settling on
the current 3x4 arrangement with * 0 # on the bottom row.
On 12/7/2019 12:22:04, ann sanfedele wrote:
I had been using mine until a few months ago..and still could except I like
where it is sitting.
-think it is bakelite it is a Western Electric (but Bakelite is a kind of
plastic) "not for Sale" item made for Bell gotten at the Sal ARmy a few years
ago...
A thing if berauty
On 12/7/2019 11:58 AM, Ken Waller wrote:
Ah but is it plastic or Bakelite? I’ve have some of each - one even in use.
-----Original Message-----
From: David J Brooks <[email protected]>
Sent: Dec 7, 2019 8:15 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Some pictures from the min-PDML meets on my latest USA roadtrip
Very nice gallery. I too have one of those old phones still
Dave
On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 8:47 PM Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote:
Jan, these are really nice pix. I especially like the fourth-from-last.
Rick
On Dec 6, 2019, at 8:22 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
ken I wrote Jan off list and corrected him on that.. quite right, New
Jersey (from the angle of the statue and the 3 pointed building to the far
right
also pointed out that the "night market" was actually the last guys to
close their tents for the evening form the all day farm market inUnion
Square..
EN joyed meeting Jan very much and we had a lovely time
ann
On 12/6/2019 7:29 PM, Ken Waller wrote:
Jan - Enjoyed the tour of NYC, thanks for posting.
Are you sure of Staten Island being in the background of one of those
Statue of Liberty shots? I grew up in Bayonne, N.J. Which is west and south
of the Statue, while Staten Island is more southerly.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan van Wijk <[email protected]>
Subject: Some pictures from the min-PDML meets on my latest USA
roadtrip
Hi all,
During my rather busy and long (4200 miles) roadtrip down, then up the
east coast,
a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure to meet a few well known
list members.
On the way down from Washington to Orlando, I met John Sessoms at his
favourite
water hole in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he lives, and we chatted
several hours.
It was a nice interlude in my journey south, John, and very good
coffee too!
Later on the way back north, I had the chance to go to NYC (from Long
Island) and visit
Ann Sanfedele in her east village appartment, where Daniel J. Matyola
joined us for
a short walk to one of Annsan's favourite restourants, where we
enjoyed a good lunch.
Annsan and Dan, it was real nice chatting with both of you, admiring
the museum like walls
with photography and other art in 'Chez Ashley' and walking the
streets of Manhattan.
I threw together a small gallery with some pictures related to both
mini-PDML meets at:
https://www.dfsee.com/gallery/lr/usa2019p
Enjoy!
For the really interested, the full roadtrip gallery (450 images) is
at:
https://www.dfsee.com/gallery/lr/usa2019a
As a side note, I hope to be at the next GFM weekend next year, and
see some more PDML members!
Regards, JvW
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