The "exchanges?" if my terminology is correct, like the letters AR or ASHLEY, BR, in the numbers and so many others went to the wayside in the late 60's, of course I was kinda young at that time, but I remember the phone system well. I'm going to say that the advent of the rotary phone around here must have been in the late 50's ( more rural areas I would think ), possibly sometime in the 60's. It would be interesting to find out, as the nearby city and the proximity to NYC, rotary dial phones may have been around a lot longer than stated above.
At my grandparents small farm, up in the nearby mountains that are one side of the berkshires, had a party line, not sure when the dial phone was implemented there but I sure do recall the party line.
One of the coolest things I have relative to the phone system is a phone book from 1966-1967, found it in our old house on a shelf and its great to look back, especially the yellow pages. There's also an ad for our ford tractor dealership with the previous owners name on it, (tracor related LOL). + all the old exchanges if that is the correct term for all the old numbers with letters.
When I was a kid I thought the phone system was really interesting, I used to like to observe the linemen working on the lines and that phone they used to hook in. I replicated an old wall hanger dial phone to hard wire into red and green so I could tap in anywhere, well just around the house but I knew in an emergency you could easily tap into any live line at a interconnection cabinet or the junction box on the outside of a house.
One old road near my house, still had the old telephone lines, poles with glass insulators, like near the railroad, was a dirt road with and old farmstead, house, several barns and outbuildings, which was abandoned, only one occupied house on the road back then.
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