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To: carriage_hill
"I remember crank phones and “party lines”. LOL."

...and person to person collect calls.

BTW, I wonder what happened to the millions of phone booths with wooden doors.

40 posted on 01/19/2019 11:01:29 AM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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To: Baynative

I have restored 2 of them. The blue Bell Telephone glass panels weren’t easy to find.


47 posted on 01/19/2019 11:16:45 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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