I was pleased to find that the phone was in good working order. (Any phone collector who stumbles by is probably thinking, Well, d'uh! Of course it worked!") The "zooop, whirrrrrr" of dialing had me hooked almost instantly. I later found out that it was an Automatic Electric model 90.
A couple of years later, I was visiting what I like to call "the funky shops" on S. Congress in Austin. I'd sort of been looking for another rotary phone. The cheap touch tone phones that I'd been using kept breaking. At Uncommon Objects I found a brown Sculptura (a.k.a "donut") phone. At about $45, it was really more than I wanted to spend, but once again, I had to have it. I think it was that same trip that I found a burnt orange rotary trimline at New Bohemia
Well, since then, I have bought more phones than I can ever hope to plug in. From the very funky swedish speakerphone to a standard black two line desk phone.
