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<blockquote data-quote="ksm" data-source="post: 719699" data-attributes="member: 12511"><p>Party lines... A wooden phone box on the wall. 8 homes on the party line, you had to lift the part you listen to, and then talk into the box on the wall. The operator had to connect you, you couldn't dial. Our ring was "long short long short". We lived in a rural area... Other friends who lived in town had the black rotary phones.</p><p></p><p>My mother sprinkling clothes by filling up a pop bottle filled with water with a little metal sprinkler lid. Beer came in cans...and when pop first started being sold in cans, we couldn't drink it in our yard, as my mom was worried that people would think it was beer. Also, the pop coolers had cold ice water, and you put in a nickel or a dime, choose the flavor, and move the bottle thru the maze to get it out of the cooler.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if we were extremely poor...but we never had a bottle of glue...mom would make a paste of flour and water. (Or was it cornstarch and water? It looked like flour to me!) Just the way her mom did when she was in school.</p><p></p><p>Long distance calls were expensive, so when my brother left for the Air Force, he would call home collect, and when the operator would say who was calling, my parents would not accept the call. But it was a way for them to know he made it safely there. They were so happy, even though they couldn't afford to take a collect call.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ksm, post: 719699, member: 12511"] Party lines... A wooden phone box on the wall. 8 homes on the party line, you had to lift the part you listen to, and then talk into the box on the wall. The operator had to connect you, you couldn't dial. Our ring was "long short long short". We lived in a rural area... Other friends who lived in town had the black rotary phones. My mother sprinkling clothes by filling up a pop bottle filled with water with a little metal sprinkler lid. Beer came in cans...and when pop first started being sold in cans, we couldn't drink it in our yard, as my mom was worried that people would think it was beer. Also, the pop coolers had cold ice water, and you put in a nickel or a dime, choose the flavor, and move the bottle thru the maze to get it out of the cooler. I don't know if we were extremely poor...but we never had a bottle of glue...mom would make a paste of flour and water. (Or was it cornstarch and water? It looked like flour to me!) Just the way her mom did when she was in school. Long distance calls were expensive, so when my brother left for the Air Force, he would call home collect, and when the operator would say who was calling, my parents would not accept the call. But it was a way for them to know he made it safely there. They were so happy, even though they couldn't afford to take a collect call. [/QUOTE]
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