They're from the phones you see in old movies that you had to crank to talk to an operator, commonly used up until the 1950's. I put my multimeter on one and it's still reading 1.3 volts. The owner told me I can take the whole lot of them if I want them which I'm tempted to do just because I like to collect old junk but I probably drag enough useless crap home as it is.

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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

With how things usually go in such cases, when you disconnect them half the city phone lines will go down.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thankfully that would just knock out a few peoples lines around here. (The store is in a little village of around 400 people at best.)

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