Haskell, Texas, around the mid 50's. I was about six at the time and to make a call we picked up the phone, waited for the operator to say "number please" and gave them the three digit number. I really do think her name was Sarah. It was much like Mayberry in the series. I don't know or remember about the party lines there and how many were on one line, but it must have been a bunch. Most any time we used the phone we had to wait until it was clear. I do remember one time when my mother needed to talk to my dad at his work place she got on the phone and asked the operator to "butt in" as it was an emergency. The people on the line had to hang up and then the call was connected.
The more I think about it, if someone was talking we could listen, you only got the operator when the line was clear.
We moved to Lubbock in 1958 and life got complicated, as our phone number went from 3 digits to 5, and then just a short time later to 7. Now it has evolved into 10 in some areas.
On a side note: I worked for a doctor in the mid 70's who had a phone in his car. It had a normal looking handset but with a push to talk button. He would drive and listen to so-called private conversations between other affluent people on the same system. I don't think, but don't know, if a listener could be detected on that system. He had to disconnect and reconnect as he drove through different areas, wasn't an automatic hand off like it is now with cell phones.
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