yeah, every family had a phone signal to save $ instead of using a call.
Party lines were in the less habitated areas.
Jay Sonin
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From: "Don Chichester" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Touch-Tone (was: Tone-Arts Records)
>I remember party lines, and five rings signaling our phone.
>
> Don Chichester
>
>
> In a message dated 12/6/2010 2:31:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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> hate to admit it, but I remember it all!
>
> Jay Sonin
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> From: "Michael Biel" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 1:54 PM
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Touch-Tone (was: Tone-Arts Records)
>
>
> From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
>> That's the old style of expressing 10-digit phone numbers, I'd put the
>> discs
>> circa 1940's. That style was used up into the 1960's. Our resident phone
>> historian Dave Dintenfass will hopefully chime in here, but I think
>> they
>> went to 10 numbers when touch-tone became widely available.
>> JU6-2346 is 586-2346. The area code would be 212, but I don't think
>> there
>> were 3-digit area codes in the 78-RPM days.
>
> Doesn't ANYBODY remember "BUtterfield 8"???? Every year someone comes
> out with a list of things that the average college freshman would no
> long know from personal experience, and I guess that telephone exchanges
> went on that list a long time ago.
>
> These colorful, historical, and descriptive word exchanges did not go
> down without a fight. There were many petitions passed around to keep
> them, and you can best relive that era with the great Alan Sherman song
> "The Let's All Call Up AT&T And Protest To The President March"! This
> has the lyrics and a short sample:
> http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=67
>
> Oh my goodness -- another site offers a Ring Tone of this!!! How
> ironic.
>
> But then the phone company started to produce phones WITHOUT LETTERS!
> That didn't last long because companies had built their numbers around
> words, but I remember George Brock-Nannestad's annoyance as he tried to
> figure out a phone number on his Danish cell phone when all he had was
> the word and a phone with no letters on the keys. (But where would our
> kids be without letters on the keys so they can text!!)
>
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