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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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