Hello there, I really like your videos, they are very entertaining. Love the British accent too... I wish I would have learned it, but since I acquired the language in the U.S., I speak with an American Accent, which I like too, but I really love the way people talks in the UK. Any how... You see, I was actually born and raised in Mexico a few decades ago and I remember those phones very well. They were made by a company called Alcatel Indetel. I have one just like that. A friend brought it to me when she came to Chicago for the holidays way back in 2003 I think. She found it in new condition in a "Bazar" shop. It was in fact never used and I got it still wrapped in it's package. Teléfonos de México, the phone company, also offered Ericsson phones for their subscribers. I remember the payphones on the streets were GTE brand coin phones. The one you showed in your video was the most common of them all. The inscriptions on my phone are completely in Spanish, no English captions whatsoever. I believe yours was probably the latest rotary phones they made in Mexico (I guess then the world started to realize that English was to become the universal language for business), but the shape and color are practically the same as most phones in Mexican homes back in the eighties. I am trying to grow my collection of phones and I plan on getting more Mexican phones, there were at least four shapes and two brands that I remember. I would also like to start buying European rotary phones, but that's not until I get my hands on those phones from Mexico. Keep up the good work. I really enjoyed your videos. Thank you for showing us the many phones there are around the world. Greetings from Chicago. Cheers!
2:21 Disco is referring to the Bee Gee's Saturday Night Fever! 😂 I kid, you are right. It refers to the dial. Disco=disc=dial. And this is a Mexican import to the United States. As Mexico's telephones lacked the alphabet letters. That's why they were printed on paper as an afterthought. To turn it into a *genuine* Mexican market one, remove the ABC's and the FCC sticker thus, making it look super boring as all heck. 😉 And gawd! I remember using rotary phones as a kid. They were so annoying to use. Back in the 1980's here in the U.S. if you wanted the Touch Tone service it cost about a nice slice of money.
Hello there, I really like your videos, they are very entertaining. Love the British accent too... I wish I would have learned it, but since I acquired the language in the U.S., I speak with an American Accent, which I like too, but I really love the way people talks in the UK. Any how... You see, I was actually born and raised in Mexico a few decades ago and I remember those phones very well. They were made by a company called Alcatel Indetel. I have one just like that. A friend brought it to me when she came to Chicago for the holidays way back in 2003 I think. She found it in new condition in a "Bazar" shop. It was in fact never used and I got it still wrapped in it's package. Teléfonos de México, the phone company, also offered Ericsson phones for their subscribers. I remember the payphones on the streets were GTE brand coin phones. The one you showed in your video was the most common of them all. The inscriptions on my phone are completely in Spanish, no English captions whatsoever. I believe yours was probably the latest rotary phones they made in Mexico (I guess then the world started to realize that English was to become the universal language for business), but the shape and color are practically the same as most phones in Mexican homes back in the eighties. I am trying to grow my collection of phones and I plan on getting more Mexican phones, there were at least four shapes and two brands that I remember. I would also like to start buying European rotary phones, but that's not until I get my hands on those phones from Mexico. Keep up the good work. I really enjoyed your videos. Thank you for showing us the many phones there are around the world. Greetings from Chicago. Cheers!
hi if you still interested in how to disassemble the phone, in the back right in the middle there is a cap covering a screw
2:21 Disco is referring to the Bee Gee's Saturday Night Fever! 😂 I kid, you are right. It refers to the dial. Disco=disc=dial. And this is a Mexican import to the United States. As Mexico's telephones lacked the alphabet letters. That's why they were printed on paper as an afterthought. To turn it into a *genuine* Mexican market one, remove the ABC's and the FCC sticker thus, making it look super boring as all heck. 😉
And gawd! I remember using rotary phones as a kid. They were so annoying to use. Back in the 1980's here in the U.S. if you wanted the Touch Tone service it cost about a nice slice of money.
Thanks!
I wanted to hear it ringing 😢