The biggest technological advancement in my house in the 70s was getting a super long curly cord that allowed you to go outside or in another room to talk... state of the art... woo whoo .... yes, we only had one telephone :(

@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and before everyone went Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs~!!!

@Maxumized

4 жыл бұрын

Keith Wilson was your sister always on it?

@robertcroft8241

4 жыл бұрын

And We English would bring three things back from trips to the States. A Zippo, a phone with buttons and the long cord.

@rhuttrho88

4 жыл бұрын

Did you have a girlfriend to talk to?

@ronnysterling7694

4 жыл бұрын

Keith Wilson I remember getting the 25 foot wall cord for the phone, talking outside was so bad ass.

I am watching this video on my mobile telephone. 😂

@dannygroom3327

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah yeah ok whatever.....

@ProctorsGamble

4 жыл бұрын

Me too Didn’t even think about the irony until you mentioned it

@anibalbabilonia1867

4 жыл бұрын

👋😂👍guilty!

@africanamerican1818

4 жыл бұрын

Saying no way, it'll never happen -- whilst watching on my modern cell phone -- fully enthralled

@thomasdaily4363

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome

My dad retired in 1980, and I asked him once if he kinda wished he had owned a cell phone. He replied, “Hell no. If I carried a cellphone, I would have never had time to think.” He certainly had a point.

@absolutelyfookinnobody2843

Жыл бұрын

He kinda had a point. But he is your dad, so you're biased

@daitos1955

Жыл бұрын

Mobile phones are great. The problem starts with the internet connectivity, you get so distracted checking your FB, Instagram, Whatsapp etc. etc. that you stop thinking, maybe that's what your Dad meant.

@sage_x2002

Жыл бұрын

@@daitos1955 Internet connectivity is great. The problem starts with the social media apps. Internet connectivity itself is not bad, given you can do things on the go you otherwise couldn't. Some important notifications can be pushed through HTTP requests which is much better than using phone lines and DTMF tones to connect.

@daitos1955

Жыл бұрын

@@sage_x2002 like credit cards, they're a double bladed weapon, they're of great help or they can financially bury you.

@sage_x2002

Жыл бұрын

@@daitos1955 Yep, reason why not to use credit cards, rather debit cards and get a loan. Loans usually have lower interest too, compared to credit cards, for those who really want to do that instead of saving up

In the early 1960s I helped my father to build 8 miles of telephone line (poles and wires) after a rural automatic exchange was installed within reach of our farm in Western Australia. We were advised to use copper wire but that length (16 miles) of copper wire would have been too expensive so we used a soft type of steel wire and to our great relief it worked perfectly for a couple of decades until an underground cable replaced it. Now the same farm is within range of a mobile phone tower.

@rickmcdonald1557

Жыл бұрын

I too have placed The 109 Steel Telephone wire as a lineman for The Bell System in 1969 and I still have my sleeve box with the aluminum sleeves to splice it and bridle it into the wire that went down the poles to a connector called a "Mouse Trap" so someone could attach it to their residence telephone. I really cherish those memories as you do and wish I could go back to those days again. 😃👍✌

@helloxonsfan

Жыл бұрын

*Things may change... but antennas stay the same...!!! (LOL)* 😂

@northcackalacky4694

Жыл бұрын

Rais I appreciate your comment!!!

@williamnavarre8169

10 ай бұрын

In American West, famously a lot of farms used barbed wire to transmit the phone signal.

@rais1953

10 ай бұрын

@@williamnavarre8169 Interesting dual purpose. I've never seen that but it would certainly work if the wire was connected to the fenceposts via insulators.

From 1961 to 2011 my dad had a Two-Way Radio shop and was a General Electric Mobile Radio Dealer and sold and serviced the MTS and IMTS systems. I remember in the mid-seventies, my best friend and I were riding with my Dad in his business GMC step van. Dad asked my friend, "Do you want to call your mom on the phone?" Dad (Rotary-Dialed the number) on the IMTS set mounted to the wall of the step van. My friend said to his mother (in a tone of excited dis-belief), "Hi mom, I'm riding in Ed's truck!" Great memory, especially since my dad has past on.

@B81Mack

4 жыл бұрын

Russ Wentz, that's a great story and a great memory. Puts into perspective how much luxury we have in our lives today. Back then, something like that was extraordinary.

@russwentz3957

4 жыл бұрын

@Robert Pearce Yeah, the 1970's were the heyday for the Two-Way Radio market. Dad was an intelligent and hard working man and business owner and earned every penny he made and then some! No, there weren't any coin operation, just used for a business field service van communications.

@russwentz3957

4 жыл бұрын

@nm I know, what kinda crap am I trying to pass along here anyway!

@peterpiper7441

4 жыл бұрын

passed on, not past on.

@fidelcatsro6948

4 жыл бұрын

wow it must been exhilarating experience to communicate wirelessly back in the stone age..

When I was age 8 in 1966, I got a pair of walky-talkies for Christmas that were on the same frequency as the Mobile Telephone service and you could listen in on mobile phone calls and even sometimes talk to the people making the calls. I had several Mobile phone people tell me that they were going to report me to the FCC, but they ain't never found me yet.

@stevek8829

4 жыл бұрын

Children's walkie talkies were on CB 14, 11 meters, and AM and mobile telephones were on VHF FM, 2 meters. Nice story but it couldn't happen.

@markmalasics8413

4 жыл бұрын

@Jim Robinson although many of the facts behind this story are missing, I find it highly doubtful that a parent would give an 8 year old child a PAIR of professional grade Motorola HT200 hand-helds as a toy for Christmas. While it "could have happened" in all likelihood it probably didn't. I can't imagine parents, out Christmas shopping, going to a communications outlet, looking at these heavy units and not knowing they weren't to be used as toys (nor a salesman not asking the intended use when helping the couple) and plopping down the cost of these radios for children's toy when they could have more easily went to the department store and gotten a pair of $20 walkie talkies, specifically built for kids.

@finscreenname

4 жыл бұрын

Ours, during the 70's used to drive truckers on the interstate nuts and they would always say the FCC is coming for us.

@markmalasics8413

4 жыл бұрын

@Jim Robinson Nothing worse than people who use that comical phrase "just saying." Of course you're just saying, you typed it, didn't you? And while you're going to use that, I'll return the favor by telling you what you're "just saying" has absolutely nothing to do with the leading comment, which was about a set walkie talkies given to an 8 year old child for Christmas. That's completely different to a child from police officer's family who "got" a hold of dads HT. If you're willing to swallow the Christmas gift story hook, line and sinker, that's your choice. I'll question it strongly based on extenuating circumstances.

@gw5309

4 жыл бұрын

Thx1138sober Hey Brother, born in ‘58 myself. I believe you. Also think you are in the clear.

I'm really impressed.I wasn't aware that such technology existed in the 40's.I was high tech for the period, and probably quite expensive.

@CFox.7

Жыл бұрын

From comment just below "Mobile Telephone Service from AT&T (Bell) was $15 per month in 1949, with each call costing about 40 cents. While that sounds affordable, in today's dollars that would be $165 per month/almost $5 per call. There were limited channels, usually no more than 24 for a whole metropolitan area, you often had to wait more than an hour for an available channel to make a call.

@agentul009

Жыл бұрын

@@CFox.7 Great fact!Thanks for sharing!

We had a scanner at work and in the early 90s we could listen in on cell phone conversations. At first, you would hear "you'll never guess where I'm calling from" a lot. About a month later, after they got their first bill, it was "hey, I'm on my cell. let me call you back when I get to a (home)phone". We also caught someone cheating on their spouse. Someone from our shop ended up calling the guy and told him that we could hear everything he was saying. He was actually pretty grateful for the heads-up.

@Lambossin

Жыл бұрын

This is a crazy story!

@TheFoolintherainn

Жыл бұрын

In the 80s-90's, We could take a baby monitor outside under telephone wires and catch neighbors conversations!

@CarsCatAliens

Жыл бұрын

Yup, I had a scanner as well. If I remember correctly it would scan thru many frequencies rapidly. I heard the teen boy 3 houses down telling his best friend that he wanted to be a women.. this was in the early 90s so it wasn't as common and accepted as it is today... But yeah, I would listen to all sorts of conversations. Once in a while you would know who it was , other times a mystery!!!

@TheFoolintherainn

Жыл бұрын

@@CarsCatAliens that's funny, my grandparents still had a party line, my sisters used to pick up the phone, keeping their finger on the receiver, unscrewed the microphone Part, unhooked that so they couldn't hear them carefully, listen to The neighbors! baby monitors were a thing in the 80s & 90s But I started working in law offices as a teenager, later in life I was a director of a psychiatric halfway house- I've heard too much! for the last 20 years, I don't want to know-I don't listen to conversations, read diaries-some days I don't even ask people how they are lol! I don't need to know - I'm good! Haha! Oh yeah, Clara on Mayberry r.f.d. was a real thing.

@renakunisaki

Жыл бұрын

I accidentally tuned into a telephone call when trying to adjust my TV... What a difference from today.

This is even more remarkable when you consider this service was available before most American homes had television.

@pooorman-diy1104

4 жыл бұрын

I want that classic mobile phone model ..to replace the boring thin rectangular shape iphone/android ....

@sgillman16

3 жыл бұрын

Most people still had black and white televisions until the late 1990s too. Long after real mobile phones.

@11sfr

3 жыл бұрын

@@sgillman16 that's not true at all, more than 50% of households with televisions had a color TV by 1972, and 98% of TV households had color by 1999. It was actually kind of hard to even find new black and white TVs for sale by the late '90s

@hewhohasnoidentity4377

3 жыл бұрын

@@11sfr I had a black and white tv in 1996

@steringp1434

3 жыл бұрын

@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 You may have owned one in 1996 but when did you buy it? 20 years before?

Everyone had the same voice back then lol. It’s like they had one narrator for every film.

@nobodyspecial6513

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the same guy who used to narrate our school movies back in the 60s and 70s : )

@robertj3116

4 жыл бұрын

Zaptor they were serious back then. And no one steps on their lawns nowadays. 😊

@Thelonelyscavenger

4 жыл бұрын

It's called the transatlantic accent. Look it up

@AtlasReburdened

4 жыл бұрын

@@Thelonelyscavenger Nope, I choose to believe that it was just one irrationally busy dude. The nuclear bomb tests were just a cover for us shuttling him around the country on rockets.

@rivotrich7

4 жыл бұрын

Guys dressed nice back then, fedora hat and suit for everyday wear.

Even more amazing is how Joe knew the truck had plenty of room for the undisclosed amount of "stuff" they had to pick up.

@MirlitronOne

Жыл бұрын

Or that he bothered to answer the phone.

@Leatherkid01

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@michaelbolton2741

Жыл бұрын

A good driver (especially one doing what is known today as LTL, Less Than Truckload) knows what he has on his truck/trailer. 😉

@michaelbolton2741

Жыл бұрын

@@MirlitronOne Being treated as a business telephone, he would have answered. Different mores, back then.

@infesting

Жыл бұрын

The company picks up the same packages from each business. So they know exactly what they are going to pick up. I know that's hard for you to use your brain but it's really simple to figure out

...and I was impressed with someone who had a mobile in the 90's!

@Chris_at_Home

Жыл бұрын

I worked for a small company that had a VHF mobile system in the early 90s and they gave me a mobile phone for my vehicle. I also had an 800 number pager, remember those? I retired from a big communications company working mostly high speed data over fiber, microwave and satellite delivering the bandwidth to other companies and our customers. What gets me is the government collects a tax on every phone number. When they started this households only had 1 phone and now they have many phones but every phone still has the tax.

"Great. That was the boss. Now we have to make another stop. I hate this damned phone!"

@ryguy57106

4 жыл бұрын

prokesuk 😂😂

@2006gtobob

4 жыл бұрын

That was their exact feeling, no doubt!

@big-oltires5167

4 жыл бұрын

I’m a trucker. I agree. Now we have Qualcomm - we don’t even need a phone

@big-oltires5167

4 жыл бұрын

B Christian funny scammer reply but how are the irs scammers going to constipate your belongings? Feed them lots of cheese and peanut butter? 😂😂😂

@big-oltires5167

4 жыл бұрын

B Christian also how can a warranty be used to officiate an arrest?😂😂😂😂😂

I feel like a time traveler watching this on my smartphone.

@kolebuscher5733

4 жыл бұрын

We are bud

@JxT1957

4 жыл бұрын

imagine telling those people back then that in the 2000s many people will believe the earth is flat

@jamesbieniek6583

4 жыл бұрын

I love these old briefs

@gregorykayne6054

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 67. This would have been my father's world just before my birth and I am watching it Smartphone.

I love the cheerful music they used on these bulletins. Post war years seemed to be the most optimistic era in the last 100 years.

There's something so wonderful about these informational videos. Just simple, direct a bit innocent and authentic. Modern videos typically are patronizing, juvenile, manipulative, over the top and superficial.

80 years later we still have dead spots on the interstate!

@markplott4820

4 жыл бұрын

my GSM service has no Dead spots. Its towers are Smaller and they are every 500 feet or so. and GSM offers PCS services. I can even use my Phone as a MODEM with a USB.

@mrradio2187

4 жыл бұрын

@Etienne Mohammed Omar's widow wants her Sat Phone back....

@burgermeister7525

4 жыл бұрын

I still hit dead spots when driving through Centerville.

@dalemassicotte6198

4 жыл бұрын

That's because you have Sprint or Tmobile

@rzu7120

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Godfrey Verizon sucks in Oklahoma and other areas

Marty McFly, to the people of the '40s: "I guess you're not ready for this, but your great grandkids are going to love it!"

@user-fw8rd5ud4q

4 жыл бұрын

Greg Delia great scott

@kebler823

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@dianainclan2021

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, that ended up to be true for me anyway. Now.....The flying car!!

@LIBICU812

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean "great"? Not even "grand" here. LOL

@clavichord

4 жыл бұрын

Well, you're the Doc, Doc!

I watched this video on an airliner over the Atlantic Ocean. Life is wonderful.

Thanks to Joe and Bill, for that fabulously monotone back and forth.

Never knew this existed since the 40s. I'm really impressed

@digitalarcheologist7586

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto - Mandela Effect for me.

@Strassenelefant

4 жыл бұрын

I am also very surprised.

@74Spirit1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Turned into a CB

@Daniel-rw2gy

4 жыл бұрын

It’s more of a proof of concept.. wasn’t really fully in service yet

@grimtvboston326

4 жыл бұрын

LOL that's because it didn't

'Sometimes a larger battery .. is needed for additional power.' Yup. Still in 2021.

@onyx8231

3 жыл бұрын

A "larger battery AND GENERATOR!" I'm thinking your car can only do two things at this point. Transport the driver and make phone calls.

@Nekotaku_TV

3 жыл бұрын

Batteries have evolved extremely slow.

@retroguy9494

3 жыл бұрын

What amazed me is that you can't even BUY a mobile telephone for your car anymore. New I mean. Cell phones have totally replaced them.

@ChristianKoehler77

3 жыл бұрын

@@retroguy9494 You can. For example the Pei Tel PTCarPhone 6 is a modern car phone. It is a modern LTE/4g device. It supports voice over LTE (VoLTE) as well as 3G and 2G (GSM). In addition to voice telephony it supports 4G data and it is a mobile Wifi hotspot. With an external antenna you can expect much better reception than a smartphone inside off the car. But that thing is expensive (over 600 € + installation cost).

@onyx8231

3 жыл бұрын

In the early 2000s, I had a Nokia dock/speakerphone kit installed in my truck that never really worked right. So I wired it to switch the audio to an old payphone handset receiver that I had in my center console whenever I picked it up. It looked exactly like these guys in the video. I did it because those receivers are a lot easier to hold with your shoulder than cellphones. LOL

Thank you for the video and EVERYONE commenting how they knew about this. My dad had a rotary dial phone in his car before 1970 and I wondered if he was some type of special ops G....or if I imagined the whole thing! LOL Thank you all!

@26MECH

Жыл бұрын

How rich are you? Lol

@jackbennett4828

Жыл бұрын

@@26MECH special ops G rich lol

@26MECH

Жыл бұрын

@@jackbennett4828 lmao hell yea I dig it

I remember when the phone was in the vehicle and not portable yet. Loud speaker or horn would blow when a call came in. Same era, we had some pretty good two way radio systems that covered almost 100 mile radius depending on terrain and weather. Rainy weather seamed to make it carry further, like FM radio bouncing off the clouds. Had an FCC radio license to operate those and a 100+ watt repeater on lease up on a local mountain.

Mobile Telephone Service from AT&T (Bell) was $15 per month in 1949, with each call costing about 40 cents. While that sounds affordable, in today's dollars that would be $165 per month/almost $5 per call. There were limited channels, usually no more than 24 for a whole metropolitan area, you often had to wait more than an hour for an available channel to make a call.

@kreuner11

Жыл бұрын

This is why all mobile phone are now Cellular, by reducing the range of antennas, and increasing the number of them, based on user density, additionally making the protocols more efficient and automated, the successor AMPS system allowed a much better and cheaper experience

@madriditunes7021

Жыл бұрын

But you cannot compare, the service could cost not only 15 dollars, but 150 dollars and it would be profitable, it was dedicated to companies generating more work to make money, just with a call diverting a truck to serve a client, it would be more than profitable to pay these 15 dollars.

@troy2000me

Жыл бұрын

@@madriditunes7021 Yes, very different use case. It was for businesses. In today's money the $5 call would save potentially a few hundred bucks in labor and gas to re-send a different truck on a long trip.

@KrustyKlown

Жыл бұрын

AT&T normal long distance calls were VERY EXPENSIVE for decades. The source of countless family arguments each month ..."who the hell called.... for 30 mins !!!!"

@dbstoo

Жыл бұрын

@@KrustyKlown AT&T long distance was expensive for two main reasons. Phone service was provided by AT&T as a public necessity. The profits from long distance calls were used to subsidize the universally available wire-line phone service. A person living 20 miles from the nearest town was still entitled to phone service at rates comparable to the rates in town. It could cost AT&T hundreds of dollars per month to provide that hardware and the network it connected to. The second reason for the expense was simple. It was to discourage overuse of the long distance circuits. In 1946 a call from San Francisco to Los Angeles would have exclusive use of 400 miles of wire, dozens of amplifiers and maybe even a microwave or radio link. AT&T carefully set the prices low enough that it was practical to make business and important calls and at the same time it was expensive enough that parents did not let the kids spend more than a few minutes talking to grandma in the hills of Tennessee. Disclaimer: I was an AT&T employee back in the 70s.

My Dad worked for Bell Telephone for 30 years. During the massive fiber optic upgrade in the 80's I remember him saying it wouldn't be long before phone lines were going to be a thing of the past. He lived long enough to see the marketing of cell phones to the masses.

@tigerintheboro

Жыл бұрын

My father started in the early 70's with Southern Bell, then it changed to Bell South, then was bought out by AT&T in 2006. He retired in 2007 and he always told me the same thing. Today I don't know anyone that still has a landline at home.

@MaximRecoil

Жыл бұрын

@@tigerintheboro I still have a landline, since it's the most reliable type of phone service. I'm 47 years old and I don't recall even one instance in my entire life of my phone line not working. Even during the Great Ice Storm of 1998, I lost power like most everyone else around here, but I didn't lose phone service. Also, it allows me to use classic rotary phones as-is. My mother and my aunt (her older sister) still have landlines too. My aunt has had the same phone number since the mid-1960s. The masses mostly ditching landlines in favor of glorified walkie-talkies has mostly ruined telephone service though, because most everyone you talk to on the phone these days is on one of those ridiculous little devices and the sound quality sucks. To make matters worse, many people who say they have a landline don't really have a real landline at all, but rather, VoIP, which often sucks almost as bad as cell phones. About the only time I get sound quality on par with what I grew up with in the '80s is when my mother calls, because we are both on POTS landlines.

@TL....

Жыл бұрын

@@MaximRecoil in the 1993 movie Home Alone , the phone lines go down after a snowstorm and thats why the boy Kevin in the movie wasnt able to phone the police when the 2 bad guys were up to no good

@bobl78

Жыл бұрын

@@tigerintheboro yes, they just work and never have dead batteries

@travisihs08

Жыл бұрын

@Tiger in the Boro my parents do for some unknown reason. The only people who call that number is telemarketers and people trying to scam them. They literally give the phone company $12 a month to hang up up on people.

Wow, 1940s mobile car phones that utilize FM radio and dynamically switch between transmitters. I was not aware of such a technology at that time until now.

I worked at a pro photography store from 1976 till 1979, well before cellular telephone service, and we had four customers that had mobile telephones in their cars. They would often order film and other photo supplies from their mobile telephones and swing by to pick them up. The call quality was not as good as a landline, but it got the job done. I remember one of our customers who had mobile telephone service show us the equipment in the trunk of his car. It wasn't as bulky as the equipment in the video, but it still took up a corner of his trunk. When I left the business in '79 for a better paying job, my boss just had mobile telephone service installed in our store delivery station wagon. How times have changed.

It'll never happen..... Way to dangerous, using a "phone" whilst driving....

@CheezyDee

4 жыл бұрын

If you looked carefully, they didn't include buttons to distract you, you HAD to talk to the operator to make a call. But don't call her Siri, that's probably not her name.

@anotherkat4u

4 жыл бұрын

you talk silly talk ,,,,.=^oo^=,,,,

@dannygroom3327

4 жыл бұрын

@John C . Our govt has banned it, many years ago, still see people at the wheel with a phone in hand though. More dangerous than drink driving imo.

@dehoedisc7247

4 жыл бұрын

in case you didn't notice, the man using the phone was NOT the driver, it was the passenger. So, it was Not dangerous, fool.

@ZIPPSmedia

4 жыл бұрын

@@dannygroom3327 - That's actually been proven to be true, btw!

Video: "He called long distance" My son: "Dad, what does 'long distance' mean?"

@JeffDeWitt

4 жыл бұрын

Check this out, Joe Friday making a long distance call in 1954. It wasn't until I heard this that it really hit me what a big deal it was making a long distance call in the old days. voxperitus.com/telephone-history/

@lordapophis5723

4 жыл бұрын

@john hansberry that's hilarious!!!

@BrilliantDesignOnline

4 жыл бұрын

And why is he spinning that ring with his finger?

@AdrianBawn

4 жыл бұрын

bash.org/?142934

@billolsen4360

4 жыл бұрын

Next questions could be: "Dad, what's an 'operator'?" or "A 'Phone Booth?' What's that??"

The CGI used in this video from the 1940 is amazing

Years ago I had an old, bulky Motrac (Motorola) unit in the trunk of my car. They used frequencies in the 150 MHz VHF range. One time I was about 250 miles from my home city and was up on an 11,000 foot mountain. I was able to reach the mobile operator in my city directly.

1945: "Mike, how's the construction job going?"2020: "Mike, we have detected a problem with your Microsoft account."

As the film mentions, early mobile phones were push-to-talk, meaning only one person at a time could talk while the other person listened. In the 1960s a friend once called me from his car phone. Every time he stopped talking, I heard about one second of loud static which radio enthusiasts refer to as a "squelch tail". I asked him what was wrong with his phone and he said "Nothing is wrong, I'm calling you from my car."

@massey4business

Жыл бұрын

That's how I wish it were today. Instead of talking over each other.

@Do.your.own.reserch.185.

3 ай бұрын

Yes your right the old cell phones back then worked on an AM band amplitude modulation ..similar to your average cb radio..the real game changer was when they were able to work on an FM band so the frequency range between cycles was closer so now you and the other one person could talk in real time without any pause ..

@geodkyt

26 күн бұрын

I can generally tell the former military guys on telecons, because we tend to say, "Over" to avoid crosstalk in a group, just as if we were using a radio. 😂

I had no idea this system was in place a far back as the 40s! This was long before the advent of the trasnsitor too. They really know how to make the best with what they had to work with.

Great film.The definition of 'compact' certainly has changed a bit over the years. 😉

@willong1000

2 ай бұрын

Good thing that gasoline was cheap back then; needed to be in order to haul around those "compact and neatly installed" vacuum tube radio transmitters, receivers and the extra battery and generator!

Cool. When is this service coming to my community? I can't wait.

@CumminsDslPwr

5 жыл бұрын

We're sorry, but the number you are trying to reach is not in service, or has been disconnected due to the Gooberment owned FCC taking away that frequency range for its own needs. Please check the number or try your call again after a revolution. Message ID # 1776.....LOL !

@rancidpitts8243

4 жыл бұрын

It will be available to serve you in about 70 years ago. Please contact us then, thank you.

@markplott4820

4 жыл бұрын

AKA Carphone.

@garymckee8857

4 жыл бұрын

Soon very soon.

@randyralls9658

4 жыл бұрын

Wait. What if they use this technology to track people?

Having built cellular sites most of my adult life. It was interesting to take a look back at the industry in its infancy. How cell phones have changed in just the last 25 years. The phones in this video make the old bag phones and Motorola "brick" look modern. My generation was probably the last generation to grow up without a phone in their pocket.

@foobarmaximus3506

Жыл бұрын

You only need a phone if you have something to say. So it worked out well for you.

I remember a Citizen Band integrated telephone system in 80s comprised of two units. One was the home unit with a roof antenna, attached to your land phone. The other was a handset, typically a CB radio. Any call received by your home unit would be relayed to your handset. I was fascinated by that equipment, not knowing anything about future of course :)

Not only mobile telecommunications has improved in the interim but standards of acting too!

Love watching these old clips. Thanks for the upload!

@pineapplesideways3820

3 жыл бұрын

Right bill

@dianainclan2021

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@dianainclan2021

3 жыл бұрын

So welcome! It's kinda primitive 😆

@jaythomas3180

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if any of these old units still exist in working condition. I'd love to see a demonstration with a personal FM transmission.

@dianainclan2021

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaythomas3180 maybe you can see them at your local Bell company.

1940’s: In the future, we will have phones in our cars to use in an emergency or if there is a need to relay important information. 2020: People attempting to drive while on Facebook, texting, taking selfies, vlogging and other pointless crap.

@juniorrs5896

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@braddocke.hutton7392

4 жыл бұрын

Bahahahaaaaa True. Guilty as charged

@lowboonkiat73

4 жыл бұрын

And download porn, don't forget porn, the reason why high speed internet was invented, so we can share porn really really fast.

@jgmoney1626

4 жыл бұрын

@@lowboonkiat73 and the Corona killing virus

@okamijubei

4 жыл бұрын

But they are not wrong with the emergencies

Wow, driver and co-driver, each one able to start a family and buy a house on a single income... That's the most amazing part of this video.

@geodkyt

26 күн бұрын

...probably working 70 hours a week, plus holidays. And having lower bills because they likely didn't have multiple cars per household, one phone line per house (with long distance calls - even to the next town over sometimes - being considered expensive), no cable, *no TV* even, a handful of AM radio stations they could listen to, no AC (so a much lower power bill), and the US having about the only really healthy economy on the planet (because we not only didn't get bombed into rubble, but were making money rebuilding Europe and Japan)...

In the mid seventies when I was still in high schooI I had one of those portable radios that you could tune in everything from short wave and emergency channels to the VHF frequency that these phones used. Some of the high priced Lawyers , in the Allentown Pa. area had these phones in their cars and I used to listen to them talking to each other about going to see their girlfriends before going home to their wives to have dinner. I rarely ever heard them talking about business during these conversations, it was all talk about their mistress's.

Nikola Tesla predicted 100 years ago that people would have devices for information that would fit right in their vest pocket.

@gingerelvira6587

4 жыл бұрын

Whats a vest

@bcgrittner

4 жыл бұрын

There was a gentleman who worked for RCA back in the late forties. He predicted communication satellites, hand held communication devices, etc. I can't remember his name, but he sure was spot-on.

@tronaboron2064

4 жыл бұрын

The cell phone is here but we're are those vest jackets damnit I want one!🌀🌀🌀🌀

@stainlesssteelfox1

4 жыл бұрын

@@bcgrittner Are you talking about Arthur C Clarke? While he didn't technically invent geostationary comm sats, he was the one who popularised them. Though hie were a trio of giant manned stations at 120 degrees around the orbit, allowing them to cover the entire Earth. The actual person who first proposed them was a Slovenian engineer by the name of Herman Potočnik, in 1928, though he didn't suggest them for mass broadcasting, simply as relays. Going back further Tsiolkovsky in 1903 was the one to first describe a geostationary satellite.

@bcgrittner

4 жыл бұрын

@@stainlesssteelfox1 You are probably correct. Clarke did, indeed, popularize the satellite theory, but there were others. There was even a theory of radio relay by satellite in Germany in the 1920's. Clarke even considered sending astronauts to space to replace the burned out vacuum tubes in the satellites. There was a Dr. Gary Gordon who worked with the geostationary satellite theory and became part of the team that created the TIROS weather satellites of the 1960's. I vividly remember the TELSTAR satellite from 1962. That was not geostationary, but was remarkable. And, we progress.

Everyone on these old films talked like guys from gangster movies.

@samsum3738

4 жыл бұрын

Like a scene from a film noir .

@marks6663

4 жыл бұрын

Alright, see here, Joe. The dames had class back then, I tell ya. They had class and they had looks. But they weren't easy. A guy had to sell himself. Hard. And I mean real hard. And all the time. From morning til night. One slip up and the word would get around. Fast. This town has ears. He'd never get a date again. Wasn't good enough to be gangster just at the bar. You had to sound tough all the time. Everywhere. Even in your truck. A guy never knew when a dame was listening. And listening good.

@Mumblix

4 жыл бұрын

"The Boss wants us to pick up a 'special' at the Depot."

@robbchastain3036

4 жыл бұрын

lol, I kept getting the sense that a crime was about to be committed. It was like a lost episode of Dragnet. But O my, the wireless communications and those film graphics were incredible. Very crafty people were at work and I tip my hat to them.

@Kenny-bw2cz

4 жыл бұрын

This was a special type of radio accent and voice which was created on purpose to be clear. People had to be trained to talk like this

Very cool. I hope I live long enough to see it become reality in my lifetime!

Many, many thanks to the "old timers" and hobbyists/historians for all their comments. It has honestly been as fascinating to read the comments as watch the video!

I'm having my car door painted with one of these "Equipped with Mobile Radio Telephone Service" signs tomorrow.

@marcse7en

3 жыл бұрын

ADVERTISING really helps THIEVES! 👍😂

@robertpryor7225

3 жыл бұрын

That would be confusing and awesome

They wouldn’t believe their grand kids will all have a mobile phone, camera, computer, music player, video, GPS, news , game player, bank service, shopping, and much more rolled into one handheld device!

@foobarmaximus3506

Жыл бұрын

Big deal. All it did was turn them into brain-dead monkeys.

@AggiePhil

Жыл бұрын

Or on their wrists.

@TombstoneChris

Жыл бұрын

@@AggiePhil are implanted into their brains which is actually happening

@BlazeMaster

Жыл бұрын

And they carry all of that in their pocket or a hand bag

@rolandmeyer3729

Жыл бұрын

Thank God for quantum mechanical technology.

I remember the teletype station in the state hospital where my father worked in the fifties, seeing the output with no one pressing the keys was amazing to me as a child.

Amazing that all the stuff that took up half the trunk can now be held in your pocket.

When I was a kid there was an older lady in the neighborhood that was a retired operator from Bell Telephone. They trained her to be one of the first mobil operators in Philadelphia. She told us that the first car phone in Philly belonged to one of the Wanamakers of the Wanamaker's Department Store family. I forget exactly what she told it it cost but I remember thinking it was more than most people make. She said he used it a lot. I guess they had the money

@Anarchist86ed

4 жыл бұрын

Now they literally give phones away. Joke was on them.

@cindytepper8878

4 жыл бұрын

@@Anarchist86ed She told us about it in the 70's when we first started seeing people around with car phones. She was talking about the late 40's, early 50's. I don't even know if she said what the equipment cost. It was the rate per minute that shocked us. It was something crazy like 5 or 10 dollars a min. Huge money in 1950ish.

@bushmaster1740

4 жыл бұрын

Trading Places?

@RayJorg

4 жыл бұрын

@@cindytepper8878 I remember getting 600 dollar a month phone bills. My boss was dropping several thousand dollars a month. Ugh.

@iamasmurf1122

4 жыл бұрын

Why do you women go online and just rant about some boring story no one gives a shit about ?

I had no idea that mobile phones were available in the 1940’s. I’m 62 years old and thought it was only available in the 1960’s. Amazing!

I had no idea these were around when I was a kid. Would have been a nice addition to the go-cart! I could have just called my mom to let her know I was still alive instead of ripping past the house once in awhile. This may freak out some of the kids reading this now but...we played outside ALL DAY! Our cell phones were sticks or whatever else we imagined was a phone. I remember one time asking my grandson if he wanted to go out and play and he looked at me like I said "Is it OK if I stab you?"🤣

Wow, I just has flashbacks to the days of being a kid in the 70's and having a rotary telephone with a metal dial.

Those guys had no idea how lucky they were being able to "go on the road" and NOT receive phone calls from their boss - or nagging wife.

@geenal360

4 жыл бұрын

James haha

@james5460

4 жыл бұрын

@Michigan Wolverine in Dallas When they know you have it, they also know you're not answering them.

@pickeldbeats

4 жыл бұрын

nagging wife? MGTOW!

@MACTEP_CHOB

4 жыл бұрын

What's a wife?

@pickeldbeats

4 жыл бұрын

石尸丹丁丹廾彐丁囗 中仈丹仁片囗 today a wife is a much the same as a boat anchor

We use this in Scotland it took over from two bean tins attached with string last year.

@Gribbo9999

4 жыл бұрын

Bean tins? Bean Tins? You were lucky! Here in out back Aussie we still use camel caravans to pass messages. It's quicker than the national broadband network.

@donf3877

4 жыл бұрын

@Gribbo9999 You did it. You had to go and did it. Now the animal rights group will be on your a$$ for misuse of animals. Forcing them into groups when they don't want to and loading them up with things they don't want and force marching them out in that hot sand when they don't want to. Oh hell... here they come now............

@g2macs

4 жыл бұрын

Gribbo9999 Camels! Camels!........We'd love to 'ave Camels......our bean tins had rusty ragged ends that used to rip off your earlobe and don't get me started on how many cyclists we lost with our sharp string!

@rsrt6910

4 жыл бұрын

Have they adopted the English "pound" for currency there, or are they still using the more traditional "knuckle sandwich"?

@tompurcell1499

4 жыл бұрын

I used to use spaghetti bolognaise tins, but I've since upgraded to ravioli.

Several years ago I was exploring the files, etc on one of my older cell phones. It was no surprise to me that I found software and other technology that had been designed and in use in the late 60s early 70s.

I knew that mobile phone service dated from the 1940's, at least in some areas. It was very expensive and had limited capacity, because each base station was a single cell, but it worked. It even predated the transistor. Those big boxes shown in the film were made using tubes.

This reminds me of the old film projector movies that were used to teach us in the elementary schools of the 1960's.

@TMWILLEMSE

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of those were converted to DVD, and I rented them for home schooling. Some of them were really well made and interesting. Unfortunately, the company sold out to Netflix, and they eliminated half of them.

Presentations and voice behind the camera was absolutely divine in old days 💥

Love the "Compact" Send and Receive Units in the Trunk!

This method of commo was also used in the Amateur Radio Service using what was called phone patch. That capability came in handy on those long lonely stretches of highway in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. The mountain top repeaters could be hit from the desert floor with a few Watts power putting you in contact by land line with emergency or roadside services.

I'm so glad there are so many videos like this that survived. This is so interesting and educational. I never knew they had this capability then!

@kreuner11

Жыл бұрын

If only they didn't plaster them with watermarks and timestamps

I hope the costs come down so everyone can have these.

And I'll bet the clarity and loudness of the calls back then was better than what we have today.

Bell labs were amazing. They also invented cable television technology and had the first operational television studio in the world. They were forced to sell the cable division idea when the government said it would concentrate too much utility service in one company. They also did Ground Breaking Work inventing the first laser.

@zeeqq105

Жыл бұрын

I dated a guy who worked at bell Labs. I was a young idiot. I never knew his value. 25 year old getting his PHD in physics. Ugh I just wasn’t ready to marry so young.

My camera makes phone calls...

@drmachinewerke1

4 жыл бұрын

I miss my bag phone.

@whatisdoneinthedarkwillbeb9204

4 жыл бұрын

@@drmachinewerke1 and corded car phone

@LoganAddisMusic

4 жыл бұрын

My flashlight has Global Positioning Service

@Bibibosh

4 жыл бұрын

gixxer L7 508 crazy talk

@bansheemania1692

4 жыл бұрын

My Porno has a Phone

Saying no way, it'll never happen -- whilst watching on my modern cell phone -- fully enthralled

This was very fascinating and interesting. My husband worked for Verizon and he told me that during training he learned about cell phones in the 40’s. I guess he was right.

@fuzzywzhe

Жыл бұрын

These weren't really cell phones, they were radio receivers / transmitters. Cell phones are so named, because there are small areas that are covered by a single tower. These are "cells", and they have some overlap. As you move from one cell to another, your phone silently switches to another tower on another set of frequencies. In this way, you can have a million people in a city using their cell phone at the same time - often using the same exact set of frequencies, but not in the same cell. These had basically a single transmitter and receiver and they used a TON of power, and only a few people could be using their radio phone at a time. These didn't take off, because they were no better than a walkie talkie.

This is so remarkable as I didn’t know there were mobile phones way back in the 40’s! I like reading people’s comments because it helps me understand how this all worked. It must have been awful if you were stranded back then with no mobile phone or a means to call for help.

I wish people still talked like this- slow and calm - today everyone’s so wacked out on drugs -no one communicates like humans -

@ariannapac6535

4 жыл бұрын

Truth.

@Williamjclopez82

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is true.

@wildfire7579

4 жыл бұрын

Hanging out with alot of druggies do ya? Maybe it's time to reconsider the company you keep. 😆

@attlee2010

4 жыл бұрын

No it’s painfully slow! It makes me sleepy

@MeatyController

4 жыл бұрын

Leave my drugs out of this!!

Loved the stiff acting, reminds me of the old "Highway Patrol" with Broderick Crawford!

@JeffDeWitt

4 жыл бұрын

@The Kraemer That was Dragnet, and they did a GREAT bit where Sargent Friday had to make a long distance call, and we heard all the steps it took. It wasn't until I heard that old radio show that I "got" why long distance used to be such a big deal.

@XxowendanxX

4 жыл бұрын

It's because they weren't on drugs

Emocionante video de los albores de la telefonía móvil, si bien años antes ya se estaban probando, pero en este comercial ya era a nivel general. Claramente era épico lograr hacer esos equipos, y que fueran prácticos, pero había un incentivo muy fuerte por lo económico, la visión a largo plazo, y la capacidad del norteamericano de hacer dinero con soluciones de todo tipo, y hasta inventar una necesidad que no estaba planteada, es admirable. Un detalle, en ese momento las comunicaciones por radio, no eran Full Duplex, basicamente eran un Handy conectado a la red de telefonía pública. Saludos desde Argentina.

I can't believe this existed in the 40s... Wild!

The compact equipment installed in the trunk is amazing. How can they put so much technology in such a small package?

@gingerelvira6587

4 жыл бұрын

Through the miracel of Tube technology

@sbains560

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t that small the entire trailer was taken up by the rest of the communication gear

@anotherkat4u

4 жыл бұрын

i think this is magic or witchcraft or sumthin ,,,,=^oo^=,,,,

@Anarchist86ed

4 жыл бұрын

Beats me. But if uncle Sam can build an atomic bomb, anything's possible.

@lenscap8925

4 жыл бұрын

The very next year the motor car companys responded with half acre sized trunks for increased range equipment...then, the "transistor" revolutionized trunk space LOL

"He would use his regular business telephone to dial long distance" OMG! Not long distance! That used to cost you a mega fortune!

@someofus994

4 жыл бұрын

simply cell phone

@frg9600

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, and you had to wait until after 5 PM local time or call on the weekend to get the reduced rate for long distance! I remember those days.

@bazlebreeze9938

4 жыл бұрын

Still, my sister won't call more than a few miles away because it's long distance. In Ohio land lines are that way still.

@someofus994

4 жыл бұрын

@@bazlebreeze9938 it is just cell phone

@k.r.baylor8825

4 жыл бұрын

And he is having to make a guess where his truck might be at a certain time, to use the right repeating station. Chances are that he'd be wrong more than right.

I was a late entry to the Bell System and used IMTS in a Bell System Van (Pacific Tel. & Tel.) on the San Fracisco Peninsula (Coast) until 1983. Even at that late stage, there were days I couldn't get an open channel, and dialing was iffy at best; I always used the mobile operator to complete calls. I did some research in preparation for my thesis prior to my promotion into management a few years later about Cellular Service, past-present-future in 1987. Within that research, I learned that Bell Labs was experimenting with live analog cellular service in Chicago as early as 1926. They shelved the idea, and patents in favor of IMTS as a more marketable product in the near term since the cellular mobile equipment using tube technology would fill a typical automobile. The tests were conducted using box trucks with the equipment in the back.

I am very much delighted to watch this video and technology in those days.

This is incredibly intersting. I'm 60yrs old and had never heard of the earliest mobile phone services that were actually used. I only remember the CB craze and the old huge mobile phone's connected too huge batteries. Too think the earliest version of mobile phone calling was in the early 40's. 🤔 Wow cool. CB Radios were pretty cool back in the day. My dad's handle was, Silver Fox. 😊

@Gail1Marie

2 жыл бұрын

You sometimes see the mobile phones of the era on old Perry Mason shows. Private detective Paul Drake had one that apparently took up half his trunk.

@carlc5748

Жыл бұрын

So your dad was Charlie Rich? (Silver Fox). He could have been the inspiration for the very first discotheque in the USA, which opened in 1975, in Reseda, Calif, called the Silver Fox. My cousin did the logo for that, and he told me that it was the first disco to open in the USA, two years before Club 54 in NYC.

@scud1962

Жыл бұрын

I only remember it from early 70’s Mannix shows but it seems that he only had calls from Kitty.

@krisyung

Жыл бұрын

How is your Dad these days

@b.m.r221

4 ай бұрын

Car phones pre dated these my 65 year old mother taught me this when I was a little kid in the 90’s

That battery ....wow! 6 volt and 200 amps later!

I bought a "cell" phone for my HVAC business back in the late 1980's. It was heavy and BIG but worked OK. It was NOT cheap. I even bought a spare battery (12 volt marine lead acid) so I could use the phone in a hotel room). I also had a pager that I received messages on several times per day (often) and since it was small it was much more useful. Back then there were not many cell towers.

This is good archive footage that shows how far we came from this to our cars of today like Smartphones, Bluetooth, Infotainment systems, etc.

back when two people were in trucks... one could answer the phone while the other was driving. get your shit together people, we need this today.

@NotSoCrazyNinja

4 жыл бұрын

Too costly! Truckers are going to be replaced by self-driving rigs as soon as the technology is mature enough because it will save the company money and increase profits. You can make a self-driving truck work 24/7/365 only stopping for fuel and repairs and you don't have to pay them. You can only make a trucker work ten hours (if I remember right) and have to pay them too. If you do teams (two drivers), you still have four hours of downtime per 24 and the cost is more than a single driver. If the wheels aren't rolling, the company isn't making money, and due to competition, they have to pay as little as they can get away with to keep making big profits. The first companies to use self-driving trucks stand to make huge profits since there will be no driver to pay and no downtime except for refueling and repairs. The big problem with self-driving rigs is, how are they going to refuel? There are no full-service diesel pumps that I'm aware of.

@dosmundos3830

4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Reaves with thinking like that we'd never progress. Technology is to used to ease mans burden, not replace him. In the capitalist west people lose jobs and suffer because of technology whilst in the socialist East people's jobs get easier with the same pay. It all comes down to human greed.

@smhedge

4 жыл бұрын

@@NotSoCrazyNinja I'm pretty sure that the big name truck stops will be happy to add full service if they can charge a big enough premium for the service to be profitable.

@AndreLuiz-ip3fh

4 жыл бұрын

Soon, no people will be needed. Auto pilot will be common place.

@garcjr

4 жыл бұрын

@@NotSoCrazyNinja You still need a CDL to manage a driverless truck.

2:24 "Leigh construction company, Martin speaking"..... "Hello George"

@onyx8231

3 жыл бұрын

😆 This killed me!

@acrocktube716

3 жыл бұрын

Easily explained. His name was George Martin.

@stevegallant3395

3 жыл бұрын

I think he had too many MARTINi's

@earlwilliams73A77

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevegallant3395 Wilko @ delta 4 Silko on hawkeye @ 674.673 ° N 985.09° S Trayfox/ Foxytray 114' ~ 667`` 10 mils. Strait5 @ G N O SW 32..6 ° NE 154° Sea flux and Sunbox * 43 + 58 '' due East... Non Barco or Mapco. INSTIO. Set my watch on grid bearings; can't get lost.. That's why the Crow & the Swift are so special. Ok, back to sleep now..For the faithful few; meet you all in Paradise sometime soon...... Bye, not good- bye.

@user-hk6kc2rr2v

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevegallant3395 5

Only place I could find an explanation of how these car phones work, interesting tech. Going straight to the primary source for information, not bad.

Lee Construction Company, Martin speaking. Hello George, this is Mike

I had no idea this started in the 1940’s. Interesting!

Gotta love technology, even 1940s tech. This is really cool to watch these old films and see how advanced we were after WWII and how similar the technology of that day is fairly similar to what we have today, eight decades later. Thanks for the upload.

Wow, before packets and ones and zeros. If only they knew how that was going to change things. GREAT VIDEO! These are always fun to watch.

Growing up in Melbourne (Aust), I recall my dad buying a late 50's Desoto as a second hand car and it had a phone in it. We never imagined such a thing could exist, but it certainly lit up my imagination. 25 or so years later I was an early buyer of a mobile "technophone" that cost me over $4000 and could allegedly fit in your pocket, as long as you didn't mind carrying a half kilo slab the weighed down one side of your pants.

@fidelcatsro6948

4 жыл бұрын

sounds like the Motorola MX350 Walkie talkie of the 90s

@hi-fistereo8987

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe I have the same thing--it's a "technophone" from Radio Shack. Might be a different model as I don't see how mine could fit in a pocket, unfortunately it doesn't work anymore.

I wonder how much money per minute was charged for those calls.

@LearnAboutFlow

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely a lot. These were true luxury/business features well into the 1980s

@marcse7en

3 жыл бұрын

Not as much as TODAY!

@rgolab3174

3 жыл бұрын

They probably didn't have the technology to bill them 😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣

@boodro2122

3 жыл бұрын

Unreasonable amounts, I'm sure.

@scp3178

3 жыл бұрын

pretty expensive. and the equipment looks ridiculously expensive.

My Father worked for Bell System From the 1920s to 1960s I remember once when he was a construction supervisor with his own company car , about 1956 or so . He came home one day with his Company car and Said " Look Son , I now have a "telephone" in my car . can you believe it ? ! THEN he told me , ONE day in your lifetime, ordinary people will "CARRY" personal telephones on them , anywhere, and make calls to anyone they wish , anytime they wish . I predict . Sadly my dad Never saw 'Cell Phones " but his prediction certainly came true . I wonder where our technology will be in my sons Lifetime ? Thanks Dad , I NEVER forgot that day, and what you told me way back in 1956 !

I worked for a CLEC over 30 years ago and had no idea this excited prior to the 80’s when mobile telephones came out.

07:40 Oh, how he loves his flexible antenna.

@JoeUrbanYYC

3 жыл бұрын

"antenna goes B O I I I I N G G " . . . "ahem, right they're filming.."

@andybovee827

3 жыл бұрын

Giggity!

Anyone remember the 1963-64 commercial about television phones in every home?

@stevie68a

4 жыл бұрын

At the NY Worlds Fair of '64/'65, they promised "Picturephone". It was a desk top receiver with handset. It took forty years later to have it happen.

What a very interesting and informative film. It shows how mobile phones have developed from radio phone and into cell phones.

Greetings....My Granddad Henry Levin directed some of these Films mostly for the army

I need to have "Equipped with mobile radio telephone service" painted on the door of my car... Bet that would impress somebody!

@HT-ww3zg

4 жыл бұрын

Chicks dig guys with mobile radio telephone service!

@mrreymundo5383

4 жыл бұрын

@@HT-ww3zg Ya gotta have something that makes you stand out in this world!

@hi-fistereo8987

4 жыл бұрын

it would impress me

@Perktube1

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but then the girl's pop could call you and say get my daughter home in ten minutes or you'll get what for.

@kirkcardoso6137

4 жыл бұрын

My CB antenna makes people think im law enforcement🤣🤣 and i love it.