My dad's brother is the most recorded percussionist ever. Or so we were told at his memorial.
Farrel Morris
Farrel Morris
My grandmother was the last manual telephone switchboard operator in Texas. The ability to direct dial a phone number and be automatically connected to the number you were calling put her out of a job.
The good old days."...idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women... -- law standing in Texas until 1918 regulating who could not vote", (http://www.thelizlibrary.org/collections/woa/woa03-03.html)
We had a party line until 89, in Wise County.We had a party line as late as 1983 -84.
What year? My grandmother had the old wall phone until the mid 60's. She had 2 longs and a short for others on the party line. A long got the operator in Glen Cove, Tx and she would dial the number for you. Actually didn't matter who the operator rang with an incoming as everyone picked up to see who was calling who. My daughter has the phone now.
Wow!.......
Oh, and she had to actually live at the switchboard, so there was always someone to connect a call if somebody on the exchange needed to make one in the middle of the night. My older sisters have memories of visiting my grandparents at the switchboard house.
I can't say I have that much, although I come close with tee shirts. Seems I get a new tee shirt about once a month from the college, I keep coming across one that I hadn't worn in a long time that I forgot I had.
This was pre-party line - this was having to crank your phone to ring the operator in order to ask her to place a call to the person you're trying to reach. There was no direct dialing - and no dial on your phone to do it with.