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Chuck:
I remember the old party telephone lines, too. I don't think we had a
crank phone, but I remember how infuriated my mother would get when she
heard another person on the party line listening to her phone
conversations (otherwise known as eavesdropping).
I recall that my Uncle Leroy Moser had the old crank type phone, and I
was always intrigued by that phone. I liked his phone better than ours
because it had a crank on it. We just had that stupid rotary phone.
The good old days...
The Weaselmeister
In dalton59@..., Chuck Meier <charlesmeier01@...> wrote:
And speaking of telephone numbers, when we lived on the farm, our
telephone was the old crank type. It was a party line and we had
rings. Our number was 27R14, which meant that we were on line 27 and
our ring was one long and four shorts. We had to call the operator
to
be connected to anyone who was not on our line. I don't remember
when,
or if, we were upgraded to a more modern technology before we left
the
farm.
Chuck
