Novelty Phones That Ring a Bell!
Posted on March 27, 2010
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Phones are such a useful way to talk to someone, it is amazing to think how we survived without them.
Gone are the days when the phone would be available to the general public as a one style suits all. In today’s modern world phones are available in all sorts of shapes and sizes, with various ringtones. You can purchase them as novelty phones too.
Novelty phones are a chic way to share news with your colleagues but also adding your own special style to make it more fun. The ringtones vary from authentic telephones through the decades from the 1920s passing through to the the 1950s like a diner phone. Maybe those Granny and Grandad’s may remember the old standard finger dialling phone in sharp colours – bright reds or blue. By the 1980s the fashion was the Trim phone with it is novel ringer.
As the time elasped, the rotary dialling phones were modernised by the new push button phones. These over took the old style phones. Later appeared the cordless phone. These phones gave a person the freedom to actually stand or sit during a conversation by the phone socket. This enabled a great deal of freedom to walk around while talking on the phone. Telephones also became wall mounted not just sat on a table top. The materials varied from wood to plastic. It became very popular to own! Great masses of homeowners now purchased a telephone to the point that phones were being situated in many rooms of the house.
Many children now own character phones that were similar to their coolist Disney character such as Donald Duck, Mickey and Minnie Mouse or Pluto, the list is endless.
Most males love their boy toys gadgets and liked the Star Wars characters such as R2D2 or Darth Vader. Even Dads have got in on the act by purchasing a phone in the fashion of a golf buggy, car or Dr Who Tardis. Mums, so not to be left out have their own personal favourites too like a red stiletto shoe or a pair of red lips.
The novelty item has also found its way in other areas over the years such as novelty salt and pepper grinders of which there are numerous designs and many of them very collectable.
All these phones still have a basic need in common and that is communication, but it is now not the case that one style suits all. Everyone has their own personality and everyone likes to have something that is different from others showing their own creative design and flair.
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