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Remember Those Live Phone Operator Voices?
The Reason For My Faith ^
| 3/29/21
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Posted on 03/29/2021 11:36:20 AM PDT by OneVike
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03/29/2021 11:36:20 AM PDT
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OneVike
To: OneVike
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:38:06 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:39:39 AM PDT
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Red Badger
("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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03/29/2021 11:43:32 AM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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To: OneVike
Dials? I remember phones without dials where you picked them up and gave the two or three digit extension that you wanted. Presumably newcomers had four digit numbers. Of course, urban areas at the time did have dials with five digit numbers and a named exchange. HEmlock, and LIberty are two that I remember.
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:43:55 AM PDT
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PAR35
To: OneVike
I remember them well.
I also remember when the number was also the area you were calling.
For example;
Murray Hill 9-3179
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:44:31 AM PDT
by
Pez149
(Time to stop saying a theory is fact....)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:44:39 AM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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To: OneVike
I love this so much, it made me tear up.
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:46:46 AM PDT
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NellieMae
(Here......common sense,common sense,common sense,where'd ya go... common sense......)
To: OneVike
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:48:29 AM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: NellieMae
I knew it would hit the hearts. It’s a great story.
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:49:21 AM PDT
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OneVike
(Just another Christian waiting to go home)
To: OneVike
That is one sweet story. Thanks for sharing it with us.
To: OneVike
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:50:10 AM PDT
by
PGalt
(past peak civilization?)
To: OneVike
You wanna talk about Operators?
I’m thinking of that song
“Sylvia’s Mother”
by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. 1972
“..And the Operator says “Forty Cents more, for the next three minutes!”
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:54:15 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(Weijia Jiang can see racism anywhere. Except in the mirror.)
To: OneVike
I still have an old rotary. Also remember the old “party lines”.
To: OneVike
Can remember having party lines before that confusing rotary dial thingee...
Neighborhood gossip was at its zenith in those days...
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:56:29 AM PDT
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SuperLuminal
(Where is another John Brown now that we desperately need him?)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:57:14 AM PDT
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: OneVike
I was born in 1947, and raised in Rochester, New York. I remember party lines, and having to give the operator the number so she could dial it. Our exchange in Rochester was Genesee 8 back then.
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posted on
03/29/2021 11:58:03 AM PDT
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mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: lee martell
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posted on
03/29/2021 12:00:54 PM PDT
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OneVike
(Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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posted on
03/29/2021 12:01:13 PM PDT
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MayflowerMadam
(Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.)
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