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3602 was 2 shorts for the last number of 2.    i think we had 8 on our line.   lasted till around 1980
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880r2. Two short rings. We had one on our party line, her conversation would start out in English and end in Danish. Another one on our party line had a Big Ben alarm clock that set next to their phone, you could hear it every time they were listening. You could also get a three way conversation going and this was back in the day when people actually answered their phones.Wink
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Originally posted by darrel in ND darrel in ND wrote:

when I grew up, we just had two soup cans with a piece of fishing line between them. darrel
How do you know they were soup cans?  One of ours was for pears.  Fit my big ears better. ConfusedLOL
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Originally posted by Robert Musgrave Robert Musgrave wrote:

I remember when the folks had the telephone INSTALLED--It sat on their bedroom dresser--that was the corner of the house closest to the power-telephone line pole, hence the shortest amount of wire needed to hook up.  The big, black Bakelite phone--no dial.  You picked up the receiver and recited the number you wanted to the operator.  Our number was Arlington 5-2740.  And yes it was a party line.  R. Musgrave
I've still got one of those phones Bob, no dial.  I got to dating the phone operator.  She had a nice bedroom......

We lived on the last farm on the line.  EVERYONE in the valley would pickup when it rang.  I don't remember how many were on the line, but everyone knew everyone else's business.  I wish I had kept that old crank phone.
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Originally posted by darrel in ND darrel in ND wrote:

when I grew up, we just had two soup cans with a piece of fishing line between them. darrel

LOL LOLLOL
We had an Oak wall phone in the kitchen that was connected to one in Grandmas bedroom. She lived on the other side of the pasture, in the house Dad grew up in. She had one in her kitchen that went to the outside world. Her number was Albany 036. One long, one short and a kinda long, I guess Wink
 There were times when she called to let Dad know somebody wanted to talk to him, so he had to walk over and use her phone to call them back.
 When Grandma went to the nursing home, Dad had a phone line ran to our house and we got one of those plastic dial desk phones, probably 1958 I imagine.
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Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF
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