Re: o/t telephone party line

Posted by NE IA on January 24, 2009 at 11:23:13 from (206.72.18.153):

In Reply to: o/t telephone party line posted by jd2wd on January 24, 2009 at 11:00:48:

Other than church on Sunday that was the only social thing in their lives.

My mom used to complain, but she would always listen in on others. When you were on the phone you could hear more clicks than a typewriter makes as everyone listened in.

South of here in the 80's a small isolated telephone company had thirteen on one line, but they got along pretty well. If you needed the phone to sell hogs, you just broke in and told them about how long you would be.

We had crank phones at one place as a child, and we thought we had the world by the tail.

I have heard of putting the ear piece tight infront of the mouth part and cranking the phone if you wanted to brake ear drums.

If you wanted to invite every neighbor to a party, or if you needed help, you just started cranking for a long time to alert everyone.

Kids in those days had absolutly no business on the phone, just was not allowed.

To bad telemarketers aren't forced to use the old crank phones.

My youngest, now 18 had no idea at age ten how to use the rotary dial phones. Want to challenge him on the cell phone options now?

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