Old Party Line Phone Numbers
Who Remembers Telephone Party Lines? Southern …
WEBIn 1971, Southern Bell announced they were phasing out the use of party lines in North Carolina. A newspaper headline, echoing sentiments we hear every time one technology gives way to a new one, called telephone party lines "a victim of progress." In 1987, 2.8 …
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Party line (telephony) Wikipedia
WEBA party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers.. Party line systems were …
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Phone History: All About Party Lines NumberBarn Blog
WEBParty lines were extremely common in the 1930’s and 1940’s in rural areas. The basic advantage of using a party line was that since each connection had to run a number of …
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Party lines and fourdigit phone numbers: remembering the …
WEBEveryone knew each other’s phone numbers by four digits. My family’s number was 8043. Cousin Henry Foy’s (the former mayor) was 9033. Numbers were easy to remember. …
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Telephone Party Lines May Be Gone But They Stuck
WEBFaceTime, streaming, Google Docs, three-way calls. Before all these marvelous feats in communication, there were telephone party lines. These existed when phone providers …
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What Were Telephone Party Lines and When Did They Disappear?
WEBParty lines began to disappear in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was due to a number of factors, including the increasing availability of individual telephone lines, the …
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10 Things About Old Telephones That Might Confuse Young People
WEBHere are a few other aspects of old-school telephony that might stump younger people. 1. Busy Signal. These days, if a person is currently engaged on their telephone, any …
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Telephone Party Lines Were Once High Entertainment
WEB2) Space your calls well apart so others can use the line. 3) If line is in use, hang up promptly and try again in a few minutes. 4) Give right of way to emergency calls. 5) …
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Our childhood phone numbers: Readers on calling 'Granite,' party …
WEBShoreham Telephone was the last phone utility in the state to service party lines. -7961 (my grandparents), -7963 (our farm - the barn line), -7965 (still my aunt and uncle), …
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Spanning Time: When phones meant hand cranks, operators and …
WEBWe still had a party line in the late 1950s and early 1960s — which went the same way as the old hand-cranked telephone. Yet, from the early days when telephones were …
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Telephone Technology: Push Buttons and Party Lines
WEBLater that year, on November 18, 1963, Bell Telephone officially rolled out push-button telephones to the public. A push-button interface meant customers no longer had to …
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Residents remember when phone lines were shared
WEBIn rural areas, party line telephone service was still in use 20 years later, into the 1980s. On a party line, several households would use the same phone number, but calls for a …
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Do You Have Stories About Party Line Telephone Service?
WEBUnfortunately, there were people who abused that courtesy both ways. In 1954 New York passed a law that you could be prosecuted for either refusing to get off the phone for an …
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Party Lines, the Original Group Audio Call International Call
WEBIn fact, party lines, which are a type of shared / group telephone subscription service, were the dominant type of phone service for decades. By the 1950s, when they were just …
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Back in the Day: Telephone party lines could be anything but a party
WEBPerhaps, many of you had your own “private parties” by eavesdropping on party line conversations, back in the day. Besides the enjoyment of listening in on telephone …
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What do the phone number suffixes J, M, R, W in 1940 New York …
WEBSpeaking of phone numbers getting longer over time: on page 57 of the 1940 phone directory linked in the original question is New Dorp Coal Corporation. Their original …
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Telephone Party Lines Were Once High Entertainment
WEBWith the old party lines, there was the expectation – OK, the ridiculously faint hope that your conversation was private. Eavesdropping was a very common practice. In the …
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