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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 02:13 PM Original message |
Who's ever used a hand-cranked phone on a party line? |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. I have. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 02:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I regularly made long-distance calls on the thing. |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-14-06 01:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. fun listening in on the gossipy women circa 1904 - party line, don'tcha |
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grannylib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not the wooden ones, but the old black Bakelite ones with no numbers |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 02:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I've never had my grubby paws on a Bakelite phone. |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. never used it, but I am on a ranch and I have the old one that was here |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 02:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Small cattle ranch in the Great Basin. |
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Suich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
7. We had one when I was a kid in Eugene. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Lovely! The old one I remember had been rather nicely polished .. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. Hand cranked telephone exchanges lasted until 1983 (Bryant Pond, Maine) |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The "no need to fix it if it still works" Yankees? |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Ayuh |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. RFLOL! |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. My buddy was on our party line |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Yeah, well ... uh ... now, wait just a minute ... huh? |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:43 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. It had to be my own number... |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:47 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Amazin! And nifty neat-o cool, too! |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
14. No hand cranked but I do remember |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 04:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Yeah, we didn't got all them fancy city-slicker improvements .. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
16. No hand crank, but we had a party line until the mid-late 1970's. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 03:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Well, I for one am certainly glad that those old days when |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
20. My dear struggle4progresss........ |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 04:07 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Did you have to settle up your long-distance bill at the front desk? |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 04:13 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. ROFLMAO! |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
22. I had a neighbor who did |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-13-06 04:09 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Gotta say I love the telly photo in your sigline. |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-14-06 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
27. My grandparents had one |
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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-14-06 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
28. Lived out in the boonies at an outdoor pursuits center and had the wooden |
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OnionPatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-14-06 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
29. No, never used one of those, but |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-14-06 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
30. I remember my grandmother had one. |
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