tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18500594.post7422356860759655972..comments2023-09-23T10:44:53.276-04:00Comments on I Laugh, Therefore, I AM: Remember When . . .Br. Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03794716304960943782noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18500594.post-15187934942637633712009-11-08T01:04:27.521-04:002009-11-08T01:04:27.521-04:00Oh lawsy, let me take my Geritol and change my Dep...Oh lawsy, let me take my Geritol and change my Depends.<br /><br />Our phone was ED2-2638. I haven't thought about that for eons. You only had to dial the five numbers. <br /><br />Long distance calls were verboten at our house unless somebody had died. We had no extensions because you were charged for them as if they were another line. <br /><br />My cousins still had a party line in the late 1970's, but they lived on a farm waaaay out in BFE. <br /><br />Momma still had the Ma Bell, black rotary-dial phone in 2005 when we closed down her house, with a stick-on plastic dial ring advertising one of the local banks. It was bright yellow with BIG numbers.Speckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07374976843193713274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18500594.post-46436006145048362742009-11-01T21:03:04.069-04:002009-11-01T21:03:04.069-04:00Remember them all but # 4. I have never sent or re...Remember them all but # 4. I have never sent or received a telegram. The JC Penney catalog comment made me crack up, but what about National Geo? That was quite the scandal when I was a kid. OhMyGoodness, naked natives????? Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Man I am OLD too.QuotidianEditorialisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15384002568123391262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18500594.post-30041389773394170792009-10-30T18:13:57.172-04:002009-10-30T18:13:57.172-04:00My parents (living in a big city) had a rotary dia...My parents (living in a big city) had a rotary dial phone into the 1990's.<br />We had a party line until 1965.<br />We had a calling plan that was limited to 3 outgoing calls per day. Grandma, however, had unlimited calls. So if you wanted to talk to Grandma, you called her number, let it ring once and hung up. Then Grandma would call us back.<br />Our exchange was EVergreen and I think I said it that way until the late 1960's.<br />When I moved away and would call Grandma long-distance..she'd talk loud and fast....<br />Thanks for the trip down memory lane!MaryRuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01287095294067029081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18500594.post-8396727966327588372009-10-30T15:13:30.669-04:002009-10-30T15:13:30.669-04:00I TOLD you you're old. *hee hee*I TOLD you you're old. *hee hee*Miss Healthypantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388211920649065327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18500594.post-81380635838156930062009-10-29T18:29:22.690-04:002009-10-29T18:29:22.690-04:00Yeah, not only do I remember all those things ~ I ...Yeah, not only do I remember all those things ~ I was a switchboard operator at a hotel on Miami Beach back when there was no dial on the phones in the room. You picked up the phone and we'd place all the calls for the guests.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14474238571088240739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18500594.post-82281635909478488762009-10-29T14:34:23.023-04:002009-10-29T14:34:23.023-04:00Fleeter - - I'm not THAT much older than you. ...Fleeter - - I'm not THAT much older than you. We were in band together after all. <br />Yes, I remember making those horribly expensive lond distance calls to Victoria. You are right -- we would all double up on the phones!<br /><br />I'm sure that was Budgie who accepted the charges. She would never pass up a chance to talk with anybody!Br. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03794716304960943782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18500594.post-47674501844375217272009-10-29T13:53:38.443-04:002009-10-29T13:53:38.443-04:00You must be ALOT older than me ... I only remember...You must be ALOT older than me ... I only remember us having the MIchell exchange. And we only had to dial the last 5 numbers locally. And yes, you speak the truth on everything else you recalled. <br /><br />Remember how making a long distance phone call (even if it was just 25 miles down the road) was a major expense and required approval before dialing? And if there was a long distance call made or received, we gathered everyone around to pick up on all extensions and double up on phones to get our full money's worth? And most long distance calls were limited to 5 minutes or less so not to run up that phone bill?<br /><br />Another small town memory: When my little sister went off to college, she called home collect and mis-dialed the number once. The drugstore answered . . . and accepted the charges. They did know her after all. And who knew, maybe she needed something important from the drugstore? I wonder if it was Budgie that answered the call?Fleeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535489618564992713noreply@blogger.com