We had dinner last night with our neighbors across the street. They are retired and he has all the necessary tools for our ongoing projects! Is it wrong, cheap, to much sucking up to give a father’s day card to the man who lends you tools?
They have an old time telephone on the wall as display. Greg probably remembers using this kind. Brady probably still uses this kind! You just turn the crank and ring a distinctive pattern for who you wanted to call.
One short ring might be for mom.
One short on long ring might be for uncle Charlie.
Two long rings might be for cousin Lucille and so on.
When using these phones everyone knew who was being called by the ring pattern and it seems you were careful what you said because anybody could pick up and listen in on the conversation.
So you see all these new fangled phone services with their IN crowd or their 5 favorites. Nothing new under the sun. The idea reaches back a few years to the early days of telecommunications.
Something like nothing new under the sun?
4 Responses to “Telephone Technology”
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June 18th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Here’s one for us “aged folks,” does anyone remember “party lines? BTW - if not, this wasn’t a party where everyone snorted cocaine.
June 18th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Cecil, I do remember barely party lines at my grandmother’s house. I remember you could hear others. Scary thoughts for today.
June 19th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Come on, Randy! Even I don’t remember these phones………….well, I’ve seen pictures of them, and my brother had one on his wall for display, too. Well, maybe it was workable, come to think of it, and that was only a few years ago. So maybe I DO remember them. Just ignore me!
I remember other people having party lines, but we didn’t have a phone at that time……..maybe I’m older than I thought I was!
June 19th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Hold it. I’m lost.
What’s a phone?