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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 04:00 pm:

Was going through a box of old papers and found a University City High School paper from June 8, 1926. This was on the back.

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 05:34 pm:

You can tell it's in a big city because the phone number has a prefix and four digits. Around here the ad would have said something like "Phone 263".


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael J McCrary on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 06:01 pm:

When I was a kid, we had a 4 number dial and party line. You answered if it was your long/short ring, but could pick up and listen to anyone if desired.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By karl schlachter on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 11:18 pm:

Okay what flavor is Honeymoon, and I hope it has nothing with bitumen tar? Maybe like a noice rocky road???


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 11:29 pm:

I don't know. St. Louis Dairy apparently ended up as part of Sealtest, and I don't find a honeymoon ice cream flavor.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill Dodd on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 12:04 am:

up til 59 my folks ph # was one long-2 shorts...or what sounded like one long-2 shorts. Often you could tell the caller by the cadence of the ring...early caller ID :-)

Bill


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill Vaughn on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 10:07 am:

As a kid, our party line ring was two longs and two shorts...it is interesting now to think back that the phone would ring several times during the day.....but the only one that seemed to register in our ears and head was the two longs and two shorts. Since it was a very small town, the operator knew us and our family.....we definately did not want my father and mother to know that we had knowingly eavesdropped....things got real ugly at that point.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Schrope on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:45 am:

Boy, there sure a lot of ole geezers here. I guess I'm one of them also. We were one long and two shorts up until about 1950 or so. Then we moved to town and soon after got a private line. Still, the numbers were only four or five digits. My grandmothers was 8164, and ours was 3-6267. In college, mine was RIverside 3-4293.
Does anyone remember the "otherside" of a party line? IIRC, you couldn't listen to them, but you couldn't use the phone either.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael J McCrary on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 02:56 pm:

We could listen and also join in the conversation, but could not dial out till the call had ended and all partys hung up. That would be on an old rotary phone.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gordon Byers on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 03:21 pm:

When I was growing up on the farm our party line number was 016-R1 which was number 16, ring once. I recall 2 rings and 3 rings on our line so assume they were R2 and R3. After moving to town we still had a party line until the late 50's. All of the calls in both locations had to go through an operator, we didn't have dial service until sometime in the early '60s.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Noel Denis Chicoine, MD on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 04:05 pm:

Ours in the country was "Fleetwood-62894. How many remember the first digits as a name, not number? Two short rings. Yes, there were 6 on the party line. I often could hear my grandmother down the line listenning in on my conversations with friends. While talking, we'd often mention "somebody listenning in" and could hear the other receiver hang up.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 04:12 pm:

We went from TErryhill 3-6187 to YOrktown 5-0304.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill Rigdon on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 06:12 pm:

I was the manager of the telephone company in Richmond, Indiana in 1964. Unfortunetly we had a disatrous fire which burned the interior of the central switching office completely. Inorder to maintain some modicom of service while we spent the next eight months rebuilding the switching etc. we had to put every customer on a manual common battery 10 person line with coded ringing. Quite an awakeing for many who had never experienced party lines or coded ringing. We had hundreds of operators sitting at old manual swithboards inorder to handle the calls. I was not the most popular person in Richmond at the time but I sure enjoyed going back last summer during the Centenial and looking things over.

Bill Rigdon
'25 Fordor


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Grady Puryear on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 06:42 pm:

This is the old telephone that I grew up with, and it still works between my Barn and the House. It is a Western Electric, and is still original down to the wire covering for the ear piece. Our ring was "5", and the first long distance call I ever made was on this phone. We used fence wire in the main to run to other homes and on into town, and of course the quality was poor, but it was a Telephone. During the War it was used by the folks in the area (we had the only telephone for miles) for men in the Services to call home, they would usually write and set up a time to call, sometimes they would call late at night and we would have to go and get whomever it was for, but times were different then. The small town of Bay City was the terminus, and there was a Western Union Office there, just a very small hole in the wall with a female Operator that all us young bucks would bother late at night when business was slow, but she encouraged it. When we finally got a "better" system, we used this very telephone to call up fish from the creek, another story. I remember for some reason hearing my Grandfather tell all the eaves droppers to "hang up, I'm fixing to talk about bulls", and you could hear the clicks as the ladies would hang up. To this day, it had better be a death in the family to call me after about 9 at night, we were careful and miserly about the use of the phone, a habit I have to this day.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR. on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 07:00 pm:

"Pennsylvania-six-five thousand" :-)

That one goes back quite a way.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Dewey on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 07:48 pm:

Our home phone was/is CEdar5-2721. It is still the resort number, but with a new area code. As a kid, I could dial 4 digits to call around town, but long distance, even 8 miles to Mount Shasta was by an operator. I forget when that changed, but I must have been in grade school at the time (early 60s).
T'
David D.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By George on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 08:15 pm:

Dick, your dad went to Uni.High ?? My dad went there also !!!

George n L.A.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Gerald Cornelius on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:17 pm:

I still have our old family wood telephone in my office. Is inoperable, but a good reminder of the old days. Our local operator closed down the "board" at 7:00PM, so no long distance calls. Also, during the day you could call the operator and she could tell you who was home or not or where they were. Great "information" operator!!

Gerald Cornelius
Watertown, South Dakota


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:27 pm:

George, my Dad lived on Wayne Avenue. I think he was class of 1926.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:41 pm:


Seeing Grady's phone, I had to take a picture of my front hall. That's where Grandma's phone was when I was a kiddo, so when I moved to the farm twenty-five years ago I put this phone in the same spot. The old one went when the dial system arrived about 1960. I had a line from this phone to one in the barn until a high school kid I hired for some yard work dug through the underground wire.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR. on Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 11:53 pm:

Steve -- The push button light switches in the newel post are WAY cool! I haven't seen any of those in many moons.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By George Clipner on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 01:20 am:

Dick,, my Dad was a grad in '41 or '42.
George n L.A.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 03:57 am:

We had a crank phone in the small town (93 people) that I was raised in until we moved to a bigger town (1200 people) in '58. I think our ring was three longs and two shorts. Our new phone still had to go through an operator until the early '60's. I still ain't got the hang of the cell phone! Dave


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 09:42 am:

Couple are sitting in the living room reading the newspaper. The phone rings and the husband gets up to answer it. Picks up the phone, listens briefly, says, "Yep, sure is," and hangs up. "Who was that?" asks the wife. "I dunno. Some gal who said it was a long distance from New York."


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By john b joyce on Friday, August 28, 2009 - 03:22 pm:

Pennsylvania 6-5000 was the phone # of Frank Daily's Meadowbrook where all the big bands played in the '30s and 40's. John


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson on Sunday, August 30, 2009 - 01:18 pm:

No, John - it's the number to hotel Pennsylvania in New York. It's said to be New York's oldest telephone number - in continous use since 1919, when the hotel was built.

From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsylvania_6-5000
"PEnnsylvania 6-5000 is said to be the oldest continuing phone number in New York City. It belongs to the Hotel Pennsylvania and has been in continuous use since 1919.[1] The telephone number is based on the old telephone exchange name system. The first two letters "PE" in PE6-5000 stand for the rotary dial numbers 7 and 3, making the number (with Manhattan's area code) +1 (212) 736-5000.

Many big band names played in the Hotel Pennsylvania's Cafe Rouge Ballroom, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra; the phone number became the inspiration for the Glenn Miller Top 5 hit song of the same name, written by Jerry Gray and Carl Sigman"


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