My first dial phone was in 1973 when I went off to college.
Growing up there was an oak wall phone until about 1967 and then a big black 1930's table crank phone until 1969. In 1969 we upgraded from a hand-cranked party-line phone to a keypad phone on a private line and under-ground wires. What a jump in technology! Mom even got to pick the color of the new phone.
Our old phone number was 13: one long ring and three short rings. My uncle's house was 14: one long ring and four short rings. Twenty-two was two longs and two shorts. Conversations stopped to decode which home each phone call was ment to go to. Each cranked phone used two big round dry-cell batteries with screw terminals on top. They were a little bigger than a 16 ounce beer can. Lighting strikes near an overhead phone line would make the phones ring loudly.
Dad hated doing business over the old phone on a party line with up to ten other families listening in to his conversations. Housewives rushed to the phone to listen in when neighbor girls were dating. Any call outside of the township was a long-distance call to another phone company, it was often cheaper to drive twenty miles round-trip than to make the long-distance phone call.
The small local phone company in Templeton, Iowa had refused to modernize until the old phones became collectors items. The old phones were finally sold off for more than the cost of the modern replacement phones.
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