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Remember those?

Way before my t8me

Yes I got the courtesy on the line letter from the phone company several times.Old neighbor bitch would get on the phone for hours.

Our ring was 1 long and 1 short. There were 4 or 5 others on the line.

Two longs, and a short.

For a while, if the wind was wrong, no phone at all

Andy had to call Sara at the Switchboard... Johnboy had to go to Ike's store... And Oliver had to climb the pole!...

Yes I remember working on them as a telco repairman.

Oh yeah. The first telephone central office I worked in also still had at least on Manual line, one that appeared on the switchboard and for which calls had to be dialed by an operator. For a while as the popularity of party lines dropped, there were a lot of customers that had essentially private lines because no one was bridged with them. Eventually, the assignment ladies got around to sifting through those and reassigning them so they were sharing a line again. At some point, we stopped offering party lines although I don’t recall anyone being forced to give them up, which may have required PSC approval.

Years later we began offering distinctive rings on private lines, multiple numbers each with its own ring pattern so people living together could share a line and know a call was for them by its ring.

I read a story about a sailor from Dekota that called collect from Norfolk, Viginia to a small hometown. The operator put the call through the school

No

A friend, and I talker over the dial tone once.

I read that story two.

Wabi wut yuo smokin 😵‍💫

We were on one when I was a kid. Rural area near Addy, WA. There was three or four homes on the line.

Back then, I don't think kids used the phone much at all, I sure didn't anyways. I guess I haven't changed much.

Back around 1976, We were living on a ranch near Martinsdale, MT. There was no telephone at all out on the ranch.

If someone needed to make a phone call, they would drive in to Matinsdale, and use a pay phone booth there.

I’ve herd storries.

UR givin' away your age wabster.......

Me......hell no

Do remember the double hole out house though

Sears Roebuck catalog near by............