I worked for the Bell System on 7 different departments. As a tech i saw all the old switching equipment retired and replaced with electronic systems. The underground cables were all spliced together by hand.

Ah ha!! 5:34 ... the wheel of fortune. Okay. I didn't really try to make prank calls. I was just calling 📞 using a phone ☎️ thinking 👩 🤔 my mother would answer a question or give cookie 🍪 permission. They always asked where my mother was and what my phone number was. 1 mommy 👩 2 I think it is number 1 or number 2. Who do I ask to tell me for you? It was like asking exactly where I lived and my mother's name when I was sitting waiting in a shop for her. 1 AT HOME 🏡 2 MOMMY 👩. WHEN THE LADIES FROM OUT OF TOWN PRESSED ME FOR THE CORRECT ANSWERS. I DID A LOT OF POINTING 👉 👈 👇. WELL, I GET IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE CAR AND I SIT DOWN. I CAN'T SEE OUT THE WINDOWS, BECAUSE I AM ALMOST 4. WHEN THE CAR IS MOVING I LEAN BACK IN THE SEAT UNTIL 💺 I FALL OVER ON THE SEAT ON WAY OR THE OTHER. THEY ALWAYS HAD TO ASK: WHY DO YOU FALL OVER? I FALL OVER WHEN NONE OF MY SISTERS ARE IN THE CAR SQUISHING ME. 🚗 I KNOW WE ARE GOING TO STOP WHEN I FALL INTO THE FRONT SEAT WITH MOMMY OR MY BIG SISTER. SOME TIMES WE GO HOME 🏡. SOMETIMES, WE DON'T GO HOME. THEY ALWAYS ASKED: HOW DO YOU GET HOME 🏡? I LEARNED AN ANSWER. MOMMY HAS A STEERING WHEEL AND A PEDDLE ON THE FLOOR. IF WE HAVE GAS ⛽ AND THE CAR IS NOT BROKE, SOMETIME AFTER WE LEAVE A PLACE, WE GET TO BE STOPPING AT OUR HOUSE. YOU WANNA COME? YOU SHOULD HOLD ON TO THE LITTLE🎉 ROUND KNOB ON THE DOOR 🚪. IF MAKES THE WINDOW 🪟 GO UP AND DOWN. I CANNOT PLAY WITH IT. MY SISTER WILL HOT ME. EITHER I AM GETTING VERY OLD OR MY COMEDY ROUTINE IS GETTING WELL WORN. 🤔 🙃 😊

These people and even the young daughter I have no doubt have already passed away.

Coolest band ever

I’m 35 and already relate to Gramps😭

Keep up guys. One million is close.

Ustedes no estan preparados para Devo, pero sus hijos... tampoco, y es que no pretendamos que la Evolución los coloque en el salon de la fama...seria un fracaso para su D-evolution.

DIALS ON PHONES!!! Oh Shucks! That'll never catch on.

A gramps was speaking facts tho!

Just two pals spilling some tea 😂

A shame they're miming it. Sounds identical to the original recording, and there's no one there playing a polyphonic synth. (The SH-101 keytar that is seen here is monophonic.)

My nephew wouldn't know what a dial phone. "Hey Siri, help me!"

We had a "party line" when I was a kid. We lived in a rural area. Our phone had one short ring, the second party had 2 short rings, etc. We were advanced compared to one of our neighbors that had a shortwave radio they would request a number abd it would come over the radio.

Great progress was made when that irritating dial tone as heard in the film was gone.

Hey that was the phone # we had when I was a kid!

Amazing that supper was all done from start to finish in just a few minutes. Food cooked much faster back then!

so cool...

To this day, no media outlet can put a dark cloud over an event like CBS!

"Three square meals" Very well defined meals, served three times a day on a rectangular (square) tray...

I remember it was DELICIOUS!!!! BORDEN PLEASE BRING IT BACK

i miss 80s music

What a terrible dial tone lol

I watched it all the way through just incase we have to return to these dial phones.

This video strikes me funny. Our house was built in 1969, So it was, of course, retrofitted for your landline phones. My parents bought the house in 2004, when landlines were still very prevalent. Both of my parents had cell phones at the time, so whenever a telephone company would come to the house to offer their services, they were very surprised that my parents weren't interested in getting landline service again. There are only two remaining exposed RJ-11 style jacks. One in my parents room, and one in my bedroom. Ironic that I have a western electric 500 and a trim line hooked up to a Cell2Jack device, and not the original jacks.

lol still had party lines

Devo and the B-52's are such fun original bands.

Gramps 😭 I was so invested in his character I almost got a little misty. He likes the new dial system!

But it's putting operators out of a job!

Ah the start of the liberal media bias. Marijuana Frank? Notice you didn’t mention acid. Polite kids Howard? Ask the army reserve what they heard while helping. Hell john Morris had to say “hey man they are with us not against us”.

Who in 2024 ? Nice 55th anniversary !!

Jesus was the first magician. 😅 You can start your own religion with this shit just need sad gullible people and kids that are brainwashed there whole life and you can make people believe anything?!

Grrrrr. They had algebra in 1940 too.

All this good work ingenuity brilliant mechanical technical minds overshadowed by bad asses groups of drugs bad systems corruptions to what not

How to work a pay phone and talk to a real operator would blow kids minds today, or even enter a pay phone booth!!!

RIP Alan🌻& Bob2🌻 We’re All DEVO⚛️🥔

That dial tone was horrific! It got much less irritating over the years

Rumors say if you dial a special number, you will be teleported outside of a matrix

How has nobody made a ytp of this yet?

BELLS OF SOUTHERN BELL ......switch board operators in Blee building everry where ....

Ourbtelephone had a party line , two or four numbers to a "party line ", wany to call out , someone was always on the line , yuo talked to them to let you make a call ....no privacy ...

3 days of rubbish and shit.

I remember seeing this commercial growing up!!!

I remember dialing and midway making a mistake. Had to start all over again 😂

I remember when we switched from analog phone lines to digital.

I remember when New York City had ONE area code- 212.

That transatlantic accent is so interesting. The woman especially who got up to speak had a pretty unique one.

An intimate discussion with Binance's CEO about future developments

Phone tone sounds back then were pretty brutal to the ears.

I love how the "oh, grampa! You need to embrace new technology" message is still a timeless trope still used today 😂

About the tone quality of dial tones: The demonstration unit undoubtedly used a simple buzzer to simulate dial tone. In reality, there were different means of generating tone. In the Bell System, you most likely heard tone from a rotary generator. There were many flavors of these; different ones served different needs, and they had slightly different sounds. The earlier types used a rotating commutator and brushes, like small DC motors and electric tool motors. These made a tone with a lot of noise and harmonics, a harsher sound. Later ones were tone alternators, which made a more mellow tone. Some tiny exchanges used a non-mechanical generator that was somewhat harsh. After touch tone dialing arrived, a change was made to create the dial tone we mostly remember, called “precise dial tone.” This tone has fewer harmonics that might interfere with the touch tones, causing dialing errors.