I purchased this phone in a Flea Market in St. Louis last week and immediately planned to use it as a subject in a painting. If you are a fan of 80s pop music that phone number will probably have you humming.
This phone has a unique place in our family history. In 1979 after my wife and I were married we rented a small house in our hometown. The phone and its number had been left there from the former tenant. Later, after we relocated outside town near our present day home we were told by the phone company to take the phone with us using the same number. We later relocated to our present home once again taking our old dial up phone with us. Today this phone is still used and is located in my art studio. The remaining landline phones in our home are all digital phones.
