Celebrating National Landline Telephone Day

Robin Oakman
5 min readMar 10, 2022

I’d like you to meet the rotary dial telephone I grew up with.

Author’s Photo of Family Phone 1950s-2007

Every year on March 10th, it’s National Landline Telephone Day! Who knew?

When I was about three years old, my family moved from Boston, MA to Southern California. We lived in a brand new tract house in Whittier and we had this phone. At some point, our phone number changed from OX-687XX to 696–87XX…

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Robin Oakman

Storyteller. Poet. Feminist. Life is full of rude awakenings and magical wonders. Writing my Last Lecture. You are invited. messengergirlwrites@gmail.com