For lunch, the burger is terrific!
Taking a road trip (IN–CA) and found myself near Paducah, so I stopped by. The owner chatted me up, so I explained what drew me in; apparently the JL visit is drawing in customers from as far away as Wisconsin! "The Jet Lag table" (in the background) is a requested seat!
I worked at the [Montgomery] Wards attached to Turfland Mall in Lexington, Kentucky from summer 2000 until February 2001. We had one on display in the phone section. In all those months I never sold one, never saw one in stock, never saw a box — only the display model.
* Corded, not cordless (100% sure — no antenna, no charging contacts).
* Base: a rounded, not-quite-circular "river-stone" blob, opaque muted/subdued blue, roughly 6–10″ at its widest. Everything lived on the base: keypad, display, and the handset cradle.
* Handset: lay horizontally across the top of the base. Thicker in the middle (a bulbous hand-grip), tapering toward each end to near-perfectly round earpiece and mouthpiece caps. The two round ends dropped into two circular recessed wells on the base; the bulging middle just bridged across with no recess. Reads almost like a barbell or bone resting on a stone.
* Keypad: on the base (not the handset), buttons round or at least round-ish.
* Display: a one- or two-line Caller-ID readout on the base, greyscale (display unit was never plugged in, so I can’t confirm backlighting).
* No speakerphone, no answering machine deck, no visible brand I can remember — it did not feel like a Ward’s house-brand ("Signature") product; felt like a third-party designer/decorator phone.
I'm happy to answer any questions or anything! I've been trying to remember and find this thing on my own for years with no luck. Any assistance would be enormously appreciated! Thank you!