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Remember These???
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eclark1894
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Remember her??? Hint: She was a notorious criminal in the 70s, but still ran for president several times as a candidate for the Communist Party. And I remember she had a serious afro named after her.
eclark1894
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Remember these??? I never used one but I do remember seeing them in movies and on The Andy Griffith show.
This was a partyline phone. I remember the more modern party line, but we never actually had one.
This was a partyline phone. I remember the more modern party line, but we never actually had one.
eclark1894
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Actually, that's both true and not true. Basically, a party line was just a phone circuit that was shared by several people. The phone was considered a partyline phone because, it couldn't be dialed. When you picked up the phone you asked the operator to connect you to your party. If someone was already on the line you had to wait until they finished talking.Party lines had nothing to do with the physical phone. They were annoying. Trying to call my grandma was frustrating sometimes. Some busybody on her party line talked a lot.
Dana
eclark1894
Visionary
You're misunderstanding me. The phone above was called a "party line phone" it had a party line because you couldn't dial it. You had to pick it up and ask the operator to connect you. Your grandmother had a "party line" which was a closed loop phone circuit that several people or phones shared. Dial phones also had party lines. Case in point, the movie Pillow Talk where Doris Day and Rock Hudson share a party line on their phone.
DanaTA
Distinguished
Sorry, that's just a hand crank phone. No dials, no phone numbers. Cranking would connect to an operator and you would ask to be connected to a certain person. The operator may have asked, "What party are you trying to reach?" But it didn't mean party line, although in the early 1900s, there were many party lines due to low supply of copper wire during the wars. A party line was a looped line connected to two or more phones in close proximity, to save on copper. But mostly it was the operator using a switchboard to connect you to the desired receiving phone. Back then, operators had to know what they were doing. In larger communities, they had "exchanges", which were groups of connections in certain areas, and you could tell where in a neighborhood the phone was by the first two letters. Look at photos of switchboards...there were complex. 
Teenagers today probably wouldn't know what to do with a rotary dial phone, let alone a hand crank phone!
I remember when we only had to dial 5 digits, then it changed to 7 digits. Eventually changed to 10 digits, prefixed by "1" even for going to a city/town that was outside the local exchange. These days, dialing "1" isn't required on IP land lines.
Teenagers today probably wouldn't know what to do with a rotary dial phone, let alone a hand crank phone! I remember when we only had to dial 5 digits, then it changed to 7 digits. Eventually changed to 10 digits, prefixed by "1" even for going to a city/town that was outside the local exchange. These days, dialing "1" isn't required on IP land lines.
parkdalegardener
Adventurous
Agree totally with Dana. Phones and the type of line they were connected to are mutuality exclusive. I lived in a community where everyone was on the same line. Private (single user) phone lines were extremely expensive. The user paid for each telephone pole needed to connect them to the main trunk line and paid by the foot for the wire on the poles. The first pole off the main trunk and the wire to connected it were free. The first private line in my corner of the woods cost the owner a little over $1500 in 1965. It was paid for by his company when they couldn't contact the person due to an inability to connect due to the constant use of the single line coming into the community. Eighteen homes on the same line. We each had our own ring that we listened for. Not your ring. Not a call for you. Mine was 2 longs and a short. All the homes had dial phones. Not a crank phone to be seen though there were the odd ones in public private locations like general stores. Everyone had a 5 digit phone number.
As for the crank phone; it has nothing to do with party lines. A simple example was the single payphone about 25 miles from where I lived. A crank phone in a plexiglass box. You picked it up. Cranked the handle a few times to make it ring at the telephone operators home. Yes their home. If it was late you woke them up. The operator then in turn connected you to your party. Collect calls only as there was no way to put a coin in a phone. My Aunt was an operator for 47 years. One of the first. She died a few years back at 107 yrs old.
I had letter coded exchanges with 4 digits, 5, 7, and now 10 digit numbers.
As for the crank phone; it has nothing to do with party lines. A simple example was the single payphone about 25 miles from where I lived. A crank phone in a plexiglass box. You picked it up. Cranked the handle a few times to make it ring at the telephone operators home. Yes their home. If it was late you woke them up. The operator then in turn connected you to your party. Collect calls only as there was no way to put a coin in a phone. My Aunt was an operator for 47 years. One of the first. She died a few years back at 107 yrs old.
I had letter coded exchanges with 4 digits, 5, 7, and now 10 digit numbers.
eclark1894
Visionary
Okay, geez, I was misinformed. 
eclark1894
Visionary
Remember this??? I've been to the library fairly recently, but didn't even think about using this?
eclark1894
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I had one of these once. Mine was never this full, and eventually, I dropped it in favor of a small address book.
robert952
Brilliant
The original Google.com
eclark1894
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Since no one seemed to remember or know her, that's Angela Davis. n 1970, guns belonging to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four people were killed. Prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, she was held in jail for over a year before being acquitted of all charges in 1972. She was a professor and presidential candidate.
Only Jermaine Jackson and Don Cornelious had a 'fro that could compete.
eclark1894
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Jermaine with his 70s afro!
eclark1894
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I always got these two guys mixed up. "Mr. Las Vegas" and "The Rhinestone Cowboy".
eclark1894
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I always thought that Wayne Newton and Glen Campbell looked alike. Especially when they were younger, and so was I. In fact, I remember hearing Newton on the Ed Sullivan show, and to be honest I at first thought he was a girl.
eclark1894
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Blast from the past. Remember him???
