Posted on 09/03/2023 11:43:00 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Some elementary school kids don’t even know what a landline is. Take a trip down memory lane and remember the type of phone you used to use.
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My dad knows to always call me on my landline. My cell is always upstairs on the charger. Its primary function is to call for help if I’m out and the car breaks down.
Yep, that kind.
As a teen in the 90’s, living with my aunt and uncle they had a rotary phone and a touch tone phone. I remember using the rotary one more.
My grandma was a phone operator back in the 50’s and 60’s, maybe 70’s not sure. Maybe even in the 40’s. I just know that she was one.
The letter prefixes identified the exchange the phone was on.Phones in the area of the Klondike exchange would have been identified by the “KL” preceding the number As a kid ours was Lattimer or LT.
‘Ol Sandy Widosh is more than likely either a great grandmother or already passed on.
Along with our lovely rotary dial phones, party lines, and the innocence of unlocked doors.
I’m so old, they communicated with carrier pigeons.
That’s what my kids told me.
My uncle and family lived in Ketchum from 1969 until about 2000 when they moved back to Twin Falls. I visited them many times and never knew Adam West lived in the Wood River Valley, I never saw those pages in the phone book. We were just in Ketchum three months ago.
Mr. West passed seven years ago. He had moved to the Wood River Valley in 1985.
Valley resident Adam West dies
Mountain Express staff, June 12, 2017
Here's a moving story about Mr. West's life. He sounds like a great guy with a good sense of humor -- and it shows in those phone book listings!
Looking Back On The Life Of Batman Actor And Idaho Resident Adam West
I don’t know what plastic they made those receivers out of, but it was absolutely indestructible!
Same here. My house had a 2-piece rotary for the first few years of my existence. Had party lines into my teens. First cellphone was a 10# bag. I still remember getting a 486dx computer and thinking I had hit the lottery - now, I have exponentially (literally) more computing power in my have right now than the entire FedGov had in my high school days. Man, where did all this technology come from?
Our fraternity house (1969-1973) was wired for landline phones in every room. There were a couple of house phones, but you could get a private line in your room if you paid to have the phone company come out, turn on the line, and connect the wiring at the patch panel. I remember changing rooms one year and going to the patch panel to move the wires around. I didn’t have the right tools, so I kludged the wiring. A phone company technician came out later, saw my work, and said “No phone company tech did this wiring!” in a low growl. I thought I was going to jail for tampering with government property. I never fessed up to the crime.
*sigh*
BR 549.
Hee Haw. Junior Sample.
Don't mess with The Phone Cops!
Me too. And, when you wired in a capacitor from a tube radio they could not hear a click when you connected the wires and tapped the line.
When I skipped school I would remove the speaker and ear piece from the phone so if the school called my mother would not be able to communicate with them. Worked every time!
Our home phone was 2-1166.
My grandfather would talk on the phone for a few minutes then say he had to get off the phone because “central” was listening.
I gave the school the phone for the convenience store’s pay phone as my home phone. So when I skipped school, they would call the pay phone and get no answer.
Ha, surprised it took that long.
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