6613---one long, three shorts. Had to call "Central" and talk to the operator to connect with a number outside your party line. Ours was an eight party party line we got in the late 40s. I wasn't old enough to be creative with the eavesdroppers, but was old enough to be annoyed with them. I rarely "listened-in" myself as I really wasn't interested in what others had to say, and my mother frowned on it as well. One old man had nothing better to do, so he listened to every call. He had emphysema, so his wheezing was a dead giveaway. We'd say, "Mr. Tom, please hang up and let us talk." He never did, of course. Wish I had thought of some way to twist his tail.
The line had to be not in use before you could ring a number. Some of the women could talk for hours, tying up the line and not allowing others a chance to make a call. If you had an emergency you had to beg them to hang up. Sometimes they would, sometimes they wouldn't. Usually they would, simply because they wanted to be able to pick back up and learn all the juicy details of the "emergency". Lots of these old busybodies were real disappointed when party line went away.
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