“Call 202-762-1401 today, and you’ll hear a pleasant ticking sound followed by the announcement of the exact time, delivered in an old-timey-broadcasting voice.”
Yup, it’s the real thing. The US Naval Observatory
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Posted 25 November 2020 - 03:52 PM
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Posted 25 November 2020 - 04:41 PM
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Posted 25 November 2020 - 05:28 PM
Must be thirty years since I last dialed time to get the time.
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Posted 25 November 2020 - 06:23 PM
Must be thirty years since I last dialed time to get the time.
Julie and I will stop by the thrift store, pick up an old rotary dial phone, and give the number a call! 
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Posted 25 November 2020 - 07:19 PM
Julie and I will stop by the thrift store, pick up an old rotary dial phone, and give the number a call!
If you can find one. I haven't seen an actual rotary dial phone (as apposed to a button phone disguised as a dial phone) for a long time.
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Posted 25 November 2020 - 11:22 PM
I have one that I grabbed from my grandparents house after they died... even has the bakelite handle that weighs a ton.
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Posted 26 November 2020 - 12:05 AM
I have the wall mount, dial phone my Dad had in the backyard garage that I used to talk to my friends with. Not sure what to do with it, but I have it.
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Posted 26 November 2020 - 01:03 AM
Super interesting.
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Posted 26 November 2020 - 01:41 AM
I have the wall mount, dial phone my Dad had in the backyard garage that I used to talk to my friends with. Not sure what to do with it, but I have it.
We (my sister) still have the crank phone that was on the family ranch.
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Posted 26 November 2020 - 08:26 AM
That was a trip to the past. I called the number, and I swear to goodness it’s the exact same voice I used to hear announce the time decades ago. When I was a kid, one of my relatives had one of those big portable AM/FM/Shortwave transistor radios he kept in his camp trailer. What I remember was the tick tick tick, and the time announced every minute. That and the real BBC news.
Seriously, thank you for sharing and mentally taking me down a couple paths I haven’t been down in a very long time.
Seriously, thank you for sharing and mentally taking me down a couple paths I haven’t been down in a very long time.
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