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Fay Patricia (Hope) Byrnes

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Fay Patricia (Hope) Byrnes
A photo of Fay Patricia (Hope) Byrnes
Date & Place: at Berger Paints. in Rhodes, NSW Australia
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Look at the size of those phones! Fay Patricia (Hope) Byrnes having a little fun at the office taken in Rhodes New South Wales, Australia 1948.
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NICE
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They were big and heavy
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preciosa
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Marlee Marley
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Great photo
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Lovely.
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You could tuck it into your shoulder!
There's a collector in San Jose, CA who collects and repairs these old phones. It's not too hard to fix since, at the time, they were basically just a wire, a bell, and the handset. They did weigh a ton though!
Hey, you're me!
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Kimberly Courtright Walsh, hey there
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Wow!
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Miami Beach 1954 - love this photo!
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Miami Beach again -
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Looks like Paul Newman
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She kind of looks like my friend Kelley Lippincott Chura
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Sophie, die hat sogar zwei Telefone! :P
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They were heavy too :D
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Still have my grandmothers old phone from the 40's / 50's. We had a lot of conversations on that phone. Sometimes I pick up the receiver and pretend to talk to her. The # is still on it. ❤️ RIP Mimi
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I keep my Gram's old letters and open them up couple times a year. To pretend she just sent them to me.
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WHO is that gorgeous creature on the beach????
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Wish I knew😜
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My Grandma had a red phone that she had my whole life.When she stopped using it, I always wanted it. To my surprise, I found it in an old shed in her backyard while looking for jars. It was in a box full of junk. I brought it home, cleaned it up and it works perfectly! Yes, we had many conversations on that old phone. I love it!
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Old fashioned three way calling:-)
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Party lines
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Good old days, when bigger was better. :)
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So satisfying to slam down :)
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The phones that a by-stander couldn't hear your conversation and when you talked, your caller could understand what you were saying.
wow, a non-existing profession: the telephone operator!
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We had one of them when I was kid
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I felt weird talking into our new small phones. I didn’t think anyone could hear me. The clam shell phones were even smaller. I just use the speaker phone. I love the old phones because I’m nostalgic.
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Nice
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Love this photo!!! My, how times have changed!
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Looks like the Galaxy S5
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You couldn't break them. I wonder what they were made of
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stress
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Yes they were big ,I remember also having a party line . UGH
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You could hurt someone with those...lol
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I remember them...
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Nice!!
I wonder if it was common for women to have pocket squares back then. It seems like kind of a professional look.
I wonder if it was common for women to have pocket squares back then. It seems like kind of a professional look.
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Had a phone like this in our patio room, but w/o the extra piece on the mouthpiece. Still pretty heavy. Could use a lethal weapon if needed! ;)
Hi Judy, the photo is of my mother Fay and the phones were made of "Bakelite" a registered synthetic resin and plastic material-many old radio's were also made of this.
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Fay Patricia (Hope) Byrnes
Fay Patricia Hope was born on July 17, 1930 in Leura. Blue Mountains. NSW. Australia. She is the daughter of Richard Marsden Hope (1905-1959) and Kathleen Veronica Cooney (1905-1978). She had a brother, Richard James Hope (1935-2003). In 1950, she married Donald Charles Joseph Brynes (1923-2010) in Concord, New South Wales, Australia. Together they had children including a son, Kevin Charles Byrnes (1954-1996). The family lived in Ryde South, Bennelong, New South Wales, Australia.
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