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Who Remembers Party Lines?
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:41 pm
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:41 pm
Back when phones were just phones.
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Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:42 pm to Chief Hinge
We had a party line till I was about 9 or 10
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:46 pm to Chief Hinge
I did some party lines last night.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:47 pm to Chief Hinge
Never experienced that. Too poor.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:51 pm to Chief Hinge
Grandparents had party line when I was up to about 10. The property still has the original copper lines and I was the 3rd generation to have the only ph# ever assigned to the property.
ATT sure did a number on my parents generation and they hate having it pointed out to them. They are better trained than Pavlov's dogs over a bell ringing. Mom at 85 still can't ignore the phone to let the machines get it, even when the ID says "SPAM" in all caps.
ATT sure did a number on my parents generation and they hate having it pointed out to them. They are better trained than Pavlov's dogs over a bell ringing. Mom at 85 still can't ignore the phone to let the machines get it, even when the ID says "SPAM" in all caps.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:53 pm to Chief Hinge
We ring 3 baw
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:53 pm to POTUS2024
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Never experienced that. Too poor.
me too, I think. Is this "hold on. someones calling on the other line" or something else? We got the "other line" when I was in high school
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:54 pm to Chief Hinge
Grandparents had one. One long and one short ring.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 3:58 pm to Chief Hinge
I remember party lines, rotary dial phones, no area codes, calling the operator to place a person to person or collect "long distant" call, and phone numbers had a name and number. Ours was Pilgram5630 for 748-5630.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 4:01 pm to Chief Hinge
We had one unlit around the start of the 80s. I remember you’d pick up the phone to call someone and you’d hear Estell Vines from up the road talking to Flossy Payne about how good her tomato plants were doing or something similar.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 4:04 pm to Darth_Vader
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I remember you’d pick up the phone to call someone and you’d hear Estell Vines from up the road talking to Flossy Payne about how good her tomato plants were doing or something similar.
100% correct. Had a neighbor lady that would call her mother-n-law. One lived in a house the other in a trailer on the same property 100 ft away and they would tie the line up.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 4:29 pm to Chief Hinge
Posted on 12/2/23 at 4:32 pm to Chief Hinge
Yes
Posted on 12/2/23 at 4:38 pm to Chief Hinge
Sorry, are you trying to reach TigerDroppings ? This is farmersonly.com , we must have our internet lines crossed, please hang up and try again
Posted on 12/2/23 at 4:40 pm to Chief Hinge
I am going to hang out in this thread. I feel young here.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 4:43 pm to Chief Hinge
They got rid of them by the time I was born. Only to realize that's what the kids wanted: Henceforth, three-way calling was born!
And then we kids rang other kids with three-way calling and made our own party line!
And then we kids rang other kids with three-way calling and made our own party line!
Posted on 12/2/23 at 4:49 pm to Chief Hinge
Yep
Posted on 12/2/23 at 5:24 pm to Chief Hinge
Yeah. We had a party line and could call anyon in town using 5 digits: 5-2912
Posted on 12/2/23 at 5:25 pm to Chief Hinge
Grandparents had 1 way back in the day.
Posted on 12/2/23 at 5:26 pm to Chief Hinge
Me. 2 shorts and a long
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