I grew up in Hot Springs, AR and they didn't switch to dial phones until the mid-fifties. You picked up the receiver and the operator would come on and ask "Number please". At that time we had a population of probably 30 thousand. Not a small town! And it was a candlestick phone like they have in the sherrif's office. My grandmother lived out in the country and they had a party line in the 70's. And my sister lived in a small town in Oklahoma in the 80's and they only had one or two long distance lines. If someone was on them, you couldn't get through!
Hey to Goober, Harriet, the bank teller (I'm assuming a new identity here, since I am a banker by profession, not practicing my profession now) Fayetteville, Arkansas _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
