30+ Old Calling Cards

[martha]

These were from my mom's cousin's estate. They're old, and I don't want them, and I don't want to toss them, and I don't want to hassle selling them on ebay.

Do you want them?

Let me know. I'll mail them to you.

 

[Mr. BAW]

Bring 'em tonight; I'll take 'em....

 

[martha]

Okey-doke.

I'll go put 'em in my purse right now.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

 

[martha]

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Anything to get a rise outta you martha, my dear!

 

[Carek1230]

I have a couple of these I've been holding on to and I will never use them. Do people still use these calling cards?

 

[martha]

Anything to get a rise outta you martha, my dear!

Come down here and say that.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

I would...but then you'd be getting a 'rise' outta me...

 

[martha]

 

[BAW]

sheesh...get a room you two!

 

[martha]

A room with Reggie....

 

[Liesje]

I have a couple of these I've been holding on to and I will never use them. Do people still use these calling cards?

Well, I do! Never had a cell phone and don't foresee getting one in the near future...

 

[Carek1230]

^I had no clue people still used these! I have a cell phone but don't use it much. I don't know how to work half the features that are on the silly phone either!

 

[Rono]

Bring 'em tonight; I'll take 'em....

Do you realy think that you will be able to get the missed phonecalls back with this old cards ?

 

[martha]

Folks, they're NOT phone cards. They're calling cards. Back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when people visited you, they would leave a small card when they came to see you. When they called on you.

 

[martha]

For example:

 

[Sicy]

 

[bono_212]

I KNEW there had to be more to this than long distance minutes but everyone seemed in such agreement

 

[Mr. BAW]

The cards you gave me are beautiful...FYI..

We did some magic through ancestry.com and found names dating back to the late 1800's - early 1900's...quite a collection; here's another sample from EBAY.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-CALLING...ryZ41188QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[martha]

Cool.

I'm glad you're enjoying them.

 

[redkat]

wow I was really thinking phone cards

or I'd have fought mr.baw for them

 

[meegannie]

Did they even have phones in olden times?

 

[Mr. BAW]

Equate these calling cards as our current Business Cards...they were exchanged during teas, banquets, balls...probably a social status thing...many of these cards that I found on the internet were somewhat "inviting" with sexual suggestions! LOL! they even screwed back then!!!

I found one with Alan Jamison's name!

 

[martha]

or I'd have fought mr.baw for them

I'd watch that.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

What's this about phone and calling cards? I thought this thread was dedicated to martha an' me?

martha =

 

[martha]

Reggie=

 

[Carek1230]

Folks, they're NOT phone cards. They're calling cards. Back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when people visited you, they would leave a small card when they came to see you. When they called on you.

Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!