The very first time I’d ever seen a Trimline Touch-Tone Phone, was in the film ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (Brenda Vaccaro uses one to call her girlfriend.) I really desired this phone. I got 2 around 1982 in San Francisco – one white, one black. The black one was lost in moves, but I still own the white one. Several years ago I found some site (ebay?) that sold Trimlines, so I purchased a black one. NOT the same. The sound would go ‘in and out’ frequently and it felt like a childrens toy phone, very light. The difference was my original Bell Telephone had (probably) a heavy lead base beneath it, there was ‘heft’ in it. Since I use a landline, it works. Spectrum (my service provider) says I’m one of the few people in Montana with a landline. They joked of course, but still…
The very first time I’d ever seen a Trimline Touch-Tone Phone, was in the film ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (Brenda Vaccaro uses one to call her girlfriend.) I really desired this phone. I got 2 around 1982 in San Francisco – one white, one black. The black one was lost in moves, but I still own the white one. Several years ago I found some site (ebay?) that sold Trimlines, so I purchased a black one. NOT the same. The sound would go ‘in and out’ frequently and it felt like a childrens toy phone, very light. The difference was my original Bell Telephone had (probably) a heavy lead base beneath it, there was ‘heft’ in it. Since I use a landline, it works. Spectrum (my service provider) says I’m one of the few people in Montana with a landline. They joked of course, but still…