Posted by Fixerupper on April 05, 2012 at 19:27:45 from (199.120.105.202):
Just got to thinking about that while I was watching my granddaughters texting and using their ipods. OK, I was messing with the Droid too.
We had a crank phone here until I was about 9 years old. That puts it at about 1960. I don't remember how many longs and shorts it was but I do remember listening to see if it was our ring every time the phone jingled.
Our first rotary dialed number assigned to us was TH3-5501. Later it was changed to 843-5501. After the first letters were changed to numbers we'd sometimes forget and use TH3 when we were giving the operator our number for a long distance call. She'd sternly tell us "YOU MEAN IT'S 843". LOL.
People who cry 'invasion of privacy' today when they think their call is being monitored don't remember the party line days with the crank phones. Only back then your monitored conversations didn't get much farther than the local neighborhood. Jim
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