Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends. In July, we made a trip to Monroe to visit friends who took us to all sorts ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — I posted on Facebook recently an image of this old rotary phone I bought online. Then I proceeded to say that I had Googled for a while and figured out how to make that relic work ...

Jacob Shannon (left) and Lynda Shannon Bluestein set up a "wind phone" outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational Church in Ridgefield. On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, ...

My kids are mesmerized by a rotary phone. We bought the cream-colored 1970s model a couple weeks ago from Goodwill for $4.99. My son was asked to bring an old electric appliance to Camp Invention, and ...

I loved Jan Risher's column about an old rotary phone and old phone exchanges. Seventy years later, I still remember by best friend's phone number, Jackson 8080. And even though I've had a cell phone ...

Way back in the good old days, life ran at a slower pace. It took us almost a decade to get to the moon, and dialling the phone was a lazy affair which required the user to wait for the rotary ...

I have an old rotary dial POTS phone lying around, and I thought it would be cool to be able to use it to make calls. The most flexible way to do that would be to have it act as a mic and speaker that ...

It had been about 30 years since Cristina Wilcox used a rotary phone. But when a massive storm hit the Quad-Cities July 21, it was back to the future for Toby Tree, the tree service owned by her ...

There are moments in our shared histories that help us realize how far technology has advanced in a relatively short amount of time. A viral video originating from Orland Park may be one of those ...