We had a party line up until around the early ‘80s.
The girl out the road was a couple years ahead of me, and you know the cliche about teen girls and telephones.
She was on there every evening for at least an hour.
I never could figure out how you spend the day with someone at school, and still have so much to talk about that evening!
Finally around 81 or 82 we got a private line and cable TV..
We only had CBS and NBC as broadcast channels. I didn’t know who the hell Fonzi was until I was a junior in high school!
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