When we moved to the farm we had a party line but it was the improved version you only heard your phone ring when you had a call and IIRC there was only 2 or 3 on the line. Also remember that if you made a long distance call you had to tell'em your number so they knew who to bill. We had General Telephone and in general the service was pretty bad. We had an issue with not getting calls, Dad was an OTR truck driver and was missing dispatch calls. He got upset and told them we had to have a private line, they said they couldn't do it, he told them to come and take the phone out, they allowed we could have a private line. They put a gizzmo in the basement called a carrier, as they explained it translated our calls to a different frequency allowing them to send multiple calls on the same line. The next problem was the carrier, one summer it went bad every time it rained, so we were still missing calls and dad dispatches. Eventually someone from the phone company got ambitious and crawled up the phone pole and taped up the bare wires so the rain stopped shorting out the line and killing the carriers at about $1,200 a pop. Still had problems with the carrier, after much complaining we got a private line on the primary side (no carrier) that was fine until new folks moved into the neighborhood and we ended back up on the carrier. It took another threat of leaving them to get back on a real line again.
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