In our recent trip to the Bicol region, we found an amusing restaurant with a display of old appliances and electric gadgets. According to the manager, all their branches have vintage items for decoration that are really getting to be an attraction in the region. The restaurant is a diner similar to an American burger house in Manila. The first items I saw were old transistor radios circa 1960 or maybe older. The manager said that some of the radios are still working and some are needing repairs that they don't bother anymore since it is only for display. There were old phones, the ones with circular dialer so we used to call them circular phones versus cellular phones. No one can say if those phones are still functioning. The one on the right is a vintage circa 1950.
Corie, those phones here in the UK were called..Dial phones, we all had one in our homes...there were all different versions, but when I was a child the most common colours in homes were Green, Black, cream or red, although there were other colours....however in recent years these phones which are made from bakelite have become a collectors item and can fetch a lot of money... I used to buy old ones, a few years ago at boot sales and fix them up, add a modern digital connection to them and sell them..they are very popular. I don't have time for it any more, but I still own a few of them and have them dotted around the house for ornamental purposes they look very nice.
Great pictures Corie - we have a lot of 'retro' products for sale over here, they are new, just in the older styles - love them
HA, I remember those old phones. In fact, my parents still have a phone like that, but it doesn't work anymore. These days they are using cordless phones. I think the old phone still rings, but it is pretty impossible to talk on. OF course sometimes the receptin on my phone doesn't seem to be much better.
That is sooo true,. For all of the so called modern technology ..and I have the latest Iphone too....I find it much easier to get a clear reception and of course very little chance of losing a connection on my landline as I do on my iphone
I think this is the oldest camera that we can find here - a Polaroid that can produce instant photo. But more likely it's not working anymore. Besides, there are no more "film" or whatever you call that thing you put inside that camera. The most popular when it comes to being vintage is the good ole jukebox. The restaurant manager said that their jukebox was still working when they placed it as display. But after a month, it wouldn't work anymore because the children customers were playing with the buttons and sometimes there were kids who were banging on the buttons. So now they don't know if the jukebox can still be repaired because there are no more technicians and no more spare parts either.