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To: NRx

I remember crank phones and “party lines”. LOL.


7 posted on 01/19/2019 9:50:55 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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To: carriage_hill

My parents still had a party line in 80s and a rotary phone into the 90s.


13 posted on 01/19/2019 9:58:01 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: carriage_hill

I remember crank phones and “party lines”. LOL.

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Two longs and a short, etc.


24 posted on 01/19/2019 10:06:16 AM PST by deport
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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: carriage_hill

I remember party lines

We had one


64 posted on 01/19/2019 12:25:07 PM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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To: carriage_hill

Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Well, you better let him out.

Is your refrigerator running? You better catch it.

Hello, this is the telephone company and we’re doing repairs on your line. Would you please put your phone in a paper bag?

Hello, this is the funeral home. You kill ‘em, we chill ‘em.


75 posted on 01/19/2019 1:57:58 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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