re: What did people use before cell phones?

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When I worked for Holiday Inn-Holiday City (HI worldwide HQ in Memphis prior to relocating to Atl)

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I met Kemmons Wilson one time at the AutoZone store # 8 on Getwell...had his "business card" on a million dollar bill.

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Here's how you'd google something. My grandparents still have theirs in pristine condition. Honestly, when was the last time you've seen someone - anywhere - pull out one of these?

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Still a smart way to research. Can't use the article as a resource, but the article bibliography is a great way to start. Use the same sources the author of the article did, and go from those.

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talked to old State Trooper one day,they didn’t even had radios in their cop cars in his day.He said he went on patrol with roll of nickels,stopped every hour at pay phone.Would call headquarters to see if there were any wrecks he needed to respond to.Hard to imagine.

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When did he work? Police radio was invented in the 20's

nothing. you went out into the world without a phone and somehow survived.

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We moved to Virginia in the mid 70s. My dad went to Auburn, and If you missed the Prudential College Scoreboard show with Dave Diles you wouldn’t know the Auburn score until you got the paper Sunday morning.

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That reminds me of a conversation I had recently with a younger co-worker about fantasy football. The first few years I did fantasy football was in the mid-90's where are the scoring was done by hand. We usually didn't have final results until Tuesday afternoon. We would sometimes have results on Monday afternoon pending the outcome of the Monday night game. Also had to fax our lineups to the commissioner of the league by lunchtime on Thursday, and they couldn't be changed after that.

If you happened to catch SporsCenter on Sunday night, you usually had a general idea how you did that week, but it wasn't always accurate.

Kinda weird to think about now.

morse code

2 solo cups and fishing line

Land lines

We also

Drank hose water
Took rides in the back of truck
Didn’t wear helmets to ride bikes
Respected our parents, teachers, the President, the flag and God
Didn’t cry all the time
Ate square pizza and corn at school

And most importantly looked between our legs to tell us which bathroom to use. Something hanging down you’re a male and you go to the men’s room and like girls

It was pretty simple

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Pay phones. It sucked when they went from a quarter to 35 cents

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I remember when they were only a dime to make a local call. Bus fare was about the same IIRC.

One of my aunts had a phone that was a "Party Line" that she shared with a neighbor across the street. You'd pick up the phone to make a call and you'd hear the neighbor talking and you'd have to wait for them to get off the phone to make your call. It got bad when the neighbor's daughter got into her teens.