I miss the simplistic Rotary Dial and the Party line.
My favorite part was having to sit just 8 feet from the wall for however many hours you were on the phone.
Go back a little further and you would have had to get an operator to connect you to your party. For those on a 13 party line as I once was there were a series of rings, like 3 longs and two shorts, that you cranked to get your neighbor to pick up the phone, no matter what ring you cranked you could count on 12 people picking up.
“I miss the simplistic Rotary Dial and the Party line.”
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I remember that when my wife was carrying our now 19 year old son with a high-risk pregnancy and was home with doctored ordered “bed rest”, I went out and RENTED A BEEPER as a way of being constantly available if needed.
My, have times changed.