For you old phone guys, did you get free phone service as a perk?
My grandfather did.
I remember being at their house. One of my aunts would call, then hang up.
How many times it rang would tell my grandparents who they needed to call back.
I'm pretty certain that continued even after he retired. Might have even continued after he died, not sure my grandmother ever had to pay a phone bill, I'd have to see if my mom remembers. I think the "rule" was not to abuse it.
We lived out of state, I think it covered long distance also, so my mom would have her ring code too.
I only knew party lines from TV shows.
Greg is right, all this stuff relates to the changing times. It has always been this way.
In college, I never dreamed my vinyl records would ever be obsoleted.
Just the other day, we were talking about phone books. Remember using them as booster seats? Haven't seen a new phone book in a few years.
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Originally Posted by ho428
Remember radio call in when you had to dial the first 6 and wait for the DJ to say now to try and be caller number 10? No time to dial 7 numbers on a rotary.
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My sister did that, sometimes for prizes, sometimes to make a song request. I seem to recall her saying that they told her what to request, she realized it was lame!