Posted on 06/13/2020 9:25:22 AM PDT by bray
When my grandmother was young (before the great depression) she was a phone operator... a person would 'ring' the operator and ask to be connected to 'Jenny on Elm Street' and the operator would connect them... Not many people doing that job anymore either...
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