The film "Dial Comes To Town" depicts a family's conversation about the introduction of dial telephones in their town. The characters express mixed feelings about the transition from traditional ...

Timeshift tells the story of how Britain's phone network was built. Incredibly, there was once a time when phones weren't ...

CANTON, Ohio - A widow rented rotary dial telephones for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as thousands of dollars for now outdated phones. Ester Strogen, 82, of Canton, first leased two ...

Stuart Sliter, 84, says it wasn’t all that hard filling in as a telephone operator as a preteen more than 70 years ago since plugging a cable into the proper place on one of two switchboards simply ...

BLOOMINGTON — Dial telephones came to the Twin Cities in the 1940s, and though rotary dialing may seem antiquated in this age of the smartphone, back then it was viewed as cutting edge — even ...