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J Hamilton

J Hamilton

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Today I was listening to a Simon and Garfunkel song that came from the Bridge over Troubled Water album. A Bridge over Troubled Water was the first 8 track tape I owned in 1969. I still have that tape, then I got thinking it is 52 years old. The first 8 track I bought was 52 years ago! It cant be a half century ago? I remember the crank phone. We went to a modern dial phone in 1959 when I was 8 years old. We kept the party line for another 13 years. Our first TV came in 1955. It was a Zenith, we had two snowy stations that came on at 6:00 in the morning and went off at 10:00 pm.

This post was edited by fixerupper on 12/23/2021 at 05:08 pm.
 
I'm a tad older.
I remember my grandparents and uncles having wood wall telephones with a crank handle.
My grandparents had a root cellar for refrigeration. We had an ice box.
I remember when we got a telephone and when you picked up the handset an operator said, number please. Then came the party lines with rotary dial.
Our first television was B&W, but we did have a roof antenna. While lying on the floor in front of it, I served as the remote control for my father.
 
We were given the number TH3-5501 when the dial phone came in. Later the TH3 was changed to 843 and it is still 843. I dont remember how many longs and shorts the crank phone was.
 
I was explaining to my kids about how the TV would play the National Anthem just before going off the air at night. And the television stations would broadcast a test pattern before going back on air in the morning. They thought I was making up a story, lol
 
Man that ran the feed and seed store in town told me he remembered when the phone number for the store was 11.
 
Why Heck.. I can remember walking to school , uphill both ways in a snow storm. My old phone number was Elmwood 23501.
 
I'm so old I had it easy in school.

They didn't teach history because nothing had happened yet.
 
Ours was HItop 8-2564, that was after they took out the old crank that was 1 long 2 short 1 long, had to memorize them before my tables
 
I've dialed a rotary phone, listened to 8 track, watched b&w TV with rabbit ears, but not all at the same time.

The rotary phone was around until sometime after I left home.

But the color TV came along way before I had an 8 track in my first car.

The TV had a roof antenna, but it was still a cantankerous contraption to keep working!

But the 8 track worked very well! I don't recall it ever eating a tape. The cassette that replaced it DID eat tapes!
 
I am old, remember all of that. In 1945 after returning home from the Army Air Core,my father opened an appliance store. They sold everything from radios to toasters and irons. Dad even went to school to learn to sew, so that he could demo Singer sewing machines. Along came television, dad and an Army Signal Corp vet, sold and installed the First television in Winamac Indiana. I have a video (from an 8 MM film) of the antenna being installed on a hand built wooden tower.
joe
 
WE didn't have a number that I ever knew,you cranked the phone and told Mamie who you wanted to talk to. I remember when they put in the dial phone.I was 7 or 8.
 
Ha! Ours still does. Cranks up again at 6 am. Gordon Deal news and then right into markets. Sows are steady and bores are active. Later its the Rosary at 6pm. It settles the cows during evening milking.
 
Never did have an 8track.But remember the foil wrapped rabbit ears.Still have a rotary wall phone in the shop.
 
The local station here was still doing that within the last decade.

I still have a rotary phone on the wall from the teleco.


Paul
 
Our area was one of the last to go to the seven digit phone number. We had a three digit number when we were young. Also party lines in the area not that long ago. I did most of the things listed. No rabbit ears though, if you didn't have an antenna high up you didn't get anything. Must be why Channelmaster antenna systems and Cablevision started here.
 
after the party line our new phone number was TE8-2934. my grandparents phone number was Saratoga 6-7809.
 
I remember all the things previously mentioned except we didn't have a crank phone or a party line. Our number was EUclid 6-2666. Long before 8 tracks and cassettes my Dad's '36 Olds only had a scratchy AM radio, no FM in those days. Age 82.
 
I GUESS THAT I AM OLDER THAN DIRT . I can still remember the old wall mounted crank phone where you cranked and told the operator what number you wanted .
Wish we were back in that time , maybe no robo calls.


Azpeapicker
 
When a kid our number was EMpire 2411 which was a long and a short crank on the wall phone. When the old farmers line went out it cost my uncle to call dad and they farmed some together. He lived only 3-1/2 miles from us, but he had a neighbor 1/4 miles from him and it did not cost to call dad. So uncle kept the old farmers line to call his neighbor and the neighbor would call dad.
 
I remember all that so I guess I'm old too. My mother is 98 yrs old and still has the same phone number they had when I was born. They have just changed the area code a few times although I don't think we had a area phone back when it was a party line and was two shorts and a long ring for us.
 
anyone remember the four track? My brother had one in his car. I had an eight track.
You could always tell a young guys car. Wires were always hanging down from under the dash.
 
My parents taught me how to use the crank telephone, when we finally got a TV we had a tall antenna pole since we were about 90 miles from the nearest station (Houston KPRC), and it was annoying when we drove across a steel truss bridge cause the AM radio signal would go crazy.
 
1959.. I was walking to a Rual one room school. Grades 1>8..28 students.
Electricity...YES....Telephone NO...
Telephone arrived early 1960's Our number was Gundy 1-B 3 longs 3 shorts. party line..
School had outside Toilets..as did our home.
School had an ICE-HOUSE...Ice was melted for drinking water.
Rural public Health Nurse arrived twice a year to verify Boys were indeed boys. And Girls were indeed girls.......:)
Black and white Television arrived 1961 CJDC Dawson Creek
We were deprived ....only ONE snowy Channel....:)
My family cut and split 20 cords of wood .....our house was heated with wood.
School had a double stacked wood heater......
My siblings and I all attended collage.....
Life was good.....we knew nothing other than what we had.
All rural Neighbours were in the same boat.

Bob...North Western Alberta
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Sounds a lot like my early years, JD D. My dad bought this farm in 1953....no hydro phone etc. I was the third child, arriving in 1954. Hydro was installed then along with the old crank phone...81R15 two longs two shorts was the ring. Pressurised water system came in 1958, we used a windmill til then. My mom would heat a large tub of water on the wood stove for me and my 2 brothers to bathe. Outhouse was used til 1962, hot water heater in 1964, rotary dial phone in 1966. The house was heated with wood or coal, my dad would take the hood of his Oliver 70, invert it and used that as a chute to slide the coal into the basement...2 or 3 tons on a truck load. One room school, 20 some kids, and our 5 foot 2 teacher was not afraid to use the strap on some of the 14 or 15 year old kids who were 6 inches taller and 60 pounds heavier than her! Funny, I can't think of any of my classmates ever getting into trouble with the law...

Ben
 
Am I the only one that has, in the past, put my cell phone to my ear first to check for a dial tone before I dialed?
 
old-9, that reminds me of a story Mom told about Dad.

Dad was always extremely frugal, but for some reason he must have really been intrigued by television.

She told me home came home with a TV set, one of the first sold in Ft Worth.

Paid a ridiculous amount for it, about the same price as a new Chevrolet!

It had a 6 inch round screen, he later bought an oil filled magnifying glass to sit in front of it.

There was 1 TV station, came on at 5 or 6AM, went off at 10PM, mostly news and adapted movies.

I never saw the TV, gone before my time. Wish it had been saved!
 
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