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Article #621616Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: t... Ted Nolan
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:27
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:27
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In article <36b94692-59f5-4fb5...@googlegroups.com>, Daiyu Hurst <daiyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >I was born in 1956; my grandmother's home was in a town with 150 people >and an operator-run exchange until 1964. If you picked up the handset, >you listened for a call in progress, and hung up if that was the case. >If not, you rang the operator, who would come on and ask who you wanted >to call. > >My grandmother's telephone number was three longs and two shorts. When >direct dialing became available, that became 812-366-3424. My grandfather had the first radio in Fernandina Beach Florida. When nobody was using the phone, he would wire the radio headset into it so the operator could listen to the radio. Or that's the family story. Nobody with first-hand knowledge is still with us unfortunately. -- ------ columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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