We suspect kids today — and some adults — are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference that older ...

There are young people today who don’t have a clue what a rotary telephone was all about. They’re even more in the proverbial dark about the former existence of party lines and what they entailed — ...

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 ...

If you enter Arlington Park Cemetery, take a right and follow the road up and around a curve, there’s a gazebo. And in that gazebo, in a wooden box, there is a tan rotary phone. “I would’ve preferred ...

Longtime Bonanzaville volunteer John Bartholomay delights in teaching kids how phones once connected the world — and how to use those funny-looking rotary phones. John Bartholomay, 96, stands in his ...

The other day I opened the comments section beneath an article in The Wall Street Journal. I usually don't open comments sections except by accident, but I was looking at a fluffy article--the top 10 ...