Had one growing up in the Adirondacks. Was in the Navy in Northern Ca and stopped in the tiny town of Hayfork, Ca (near Peanut) to make a call on the payphone. That payphone was on a party line.
Anyone grow up with a party line phone? I hated ours. Damn old lady down the road was always on the SOB. We had our own ring, two short rings I think.
I know exactly what you are talking about.
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Back when I was a kid, a good friend of ours had one. Always thought it was fun to listen in. When you are a kid in the country, simple things amuse you....
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Yep, I grew up with a party line. My aunt and her friend had to rehash the soap opera's every afternoon about 4 pm. For an hour, there was no getting on the phone.
We started out with 3 shorts when there were 7-8 parties on the line. Then it went to a long and a short, when they changed it to 4 parties to the line.
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Mabel! Mabel Crabtree, you hang up that receiver now. I got important business to do with this feller and I don't need the whole county knowin' bout it before the deal is done.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Rural West Virginia that was all we had thru the 60's and 70's. We were so poor we had a listed number but dad got laid off and couldn't afford a phone when it went through, got our first phone in maybe 1970, color tv in 1976.
I remember that in 1960 we moved to Minot, ND and the first house we lived in had a party line. If I got real bored I'd listen in.
Is your name Mabel?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)