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  • avvidclif

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    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.
     

    General Zod

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    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.

    The newspaper clipping from the Austin Statesman ("As Austin As Nightly Moonlight!") didn't get cut out with the date, but from reading the story it was around 1964.

    This isn't my grandmother, but this is the job she had until technology changed it:

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    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.
     

    General Zod

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    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.

    Yep, you get it - that's the system she worked on until the mid '60s when the last SWB customers switched over to direct dial phones.
     

    BRD@66

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    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.
    Wow!
     

    Vaquero

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    The rotary dial phone was invented by a swb employee in Nolan, TX.
    Bell didn't give him squat for the invention.
    He kept his job though.
     

    deemus

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    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.

    I'm limited on this thing only by underwear count.
     

    Kar98

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    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.

    This paragraph annoys me. Party lines have been a thing since before 1897. For outgoing calls, you picked up the speaker, listened to see if the lines was not being used (no other people talking), gave the phone a good, long crank to contact the operator who made a connection for you.
    For incoming calls, if you were on a party line, each member of the party line had their own ring. Two short, one long; two long; one long, two short, and such. If any member of the party line got a call, all phones on that line rang, but with the assigned ring so the intended recipient of the call knew he oughta pick up the phone.
    You could also call other members of your party by cranking out their ring.
    And obviously any time a call was made on that party line, any other member could listen in.
     

    Moonpie

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    In the very early days of the telephone. before dedicated poles and lines were installed, the line was run down barbed wire fences.
    Frequent outages occurred when livestock would rub against or damage the fence.
     
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