{"id":1699,"date":"2023-02-14T10:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T15:43:22","slug":"1960s-trimline-telephone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/14\/1960s-trimline-telephone\/","title":{"rendered":"1960&#8217;s Trimline Telephone"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>I found a really cool old phone the other day at a thrift store for $3!\n<p>a 1960\u2019s Western Electric Trimline with the original 4-pring plug. (I changed the modular phone jack for an old 4-prong jack)<\/p>\n<p>I also wired an old transformer I had onto the black\/yellow wires of the phone jacks and now all my old phones (Trimline and Princes) light up now!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1693\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230213_002116310-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230213_002116310-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230213_002116310-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230213_002116310-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PXL_20230213_002116310-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, 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(I changed the modular phone jack for an old 4-prong jack) I also wired an old transformer I had onto the black\/yellow wires of the phone jacks and now&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/14\/1960s-trimline-telephone\/\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telephones","category-treasure-hunting-yard-sale-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewfurman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}