We got the dial phone some time in the early '50's. I am pretty sure it was before I started school in '53. We were on a party line,(ten households, 32 potential individual users). Some time in the early '60's, we went onto a smaller party line, only two parties, and one was a summer resident, then in the '70's we finally got private lines here.
I can remember the operator in town, she sat at the front window of her house and could look down about half the length of main street, and knew everything that went on.
Just one story about that. In the fall of 1938, after the '38 hurricane, the whole east coast was in confusion as far a transportation and communication, My mother's college roommate was getting married, and they were trying to arrange things. My folks were not yet married, and at that time, my mother was living and working in Worcester MA. She was on the phone to my father, trying to arrange her trip up to the wedding, and not having a lot of luck. The operator, who was a distant relative of the bride broke it. "Well I know that ----- is getting such and such a train from New York to Rutland on Friday, and ------ is picking her up. Why don't you try to find a train that will get you there the same afternoon?
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