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Post by roi2020 on Jan 3, 2023 17:51:46 GMT
I never knew there were party lines of more than 2. I guess people didn't have long conversations back in the day. Does anyone remember what their 6 digit number was? I don't remember our family every having less than 7, but I was aware at the time that others did, and remember radio advertisements that included the 2 letters and 4 digits. Common telephone numbering plans previously used one or two letters from a telephone exchange along with four or five digits. Most areas switched to all-number calling by the mid-1960s due to capacity restraints. Link
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Post by Capital on Jan 3, 2023 20:52:07 GMT
I never knew there were party lines of more than 2. I guess people didn't have long conversations back in the day. Does anyone remember what their 6 digit number was? I don't remember our family every having less than 7, but I was aware at the time that others did, and remember radio advertisements that included the 2 letters and 4 digits. We always had a 7-digit phone number.
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Post by frb53 on Jan 3, 2023 23:45:54 GMT
2 , 4 , and 8 party lines back in the day.
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Post by bobfl on Jan 4, 2023 0:48:03 GMT
I never knew there were party lines of more than 2. I guess people didn't have long conversations back in the day. Does anyone remember what their 6 digit number was? I don't remember our family every having less than 7, but I was aware at the time that others did, and remember radio advertisements that included the 2 letters and 4 digits. mo56059 (7 characters) Wife's: Yorktown 59279
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Post by Chahta on Jan 4, 2023 2:24:11 GMT
From 1955: WH-15027
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Post by hondo on Jan 4, 2023 17:11:20 GMT
Hondo, Sorry I did not get back with answers. Thanks to everyone who did. I am still experimenting. I completed my test using "link to cell". How it works: 1. I bought another multi-phone set. I currently have a base connected to a landline. The incoming calls ring on 5 handsets connected to that base. It is an old ATT set that doesn't have Bluetooth "link to cell". So I ordered another set by Panasonic that has that option. I linked the cell to the Panasonic phone base and called that cell number. The sound was bad!! on the Panasonic handsets that got the call via the "link to cell". So I tested calling multiple ways and concluded it was the "link to cell" that was messing up the sound. Maybe just for the Panasonic brand, who knows? I will not test other brands. So on to the next test, the Ooma. Based on comments here (which I appreciate) Ooma could be good. But just to be safe, I will get one of their devices and one of their numbers and if Ooma works I will switch my landline number to their line. Thanks for replying back. Please let us know how your next experiment works out.
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Post by hondo on Jan 4, 2023 17:25:32 GMT
The phone number I and my wife received in the early '60s was Fleetwood-8-xxxx. We dialed FL-8-xxxx. Some years later, it was changed to 358-xxxx, and still remains, but the last four numbers have never changed in all of those years.
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Post by archer on Jan 4, 2023 17:40:48 GMT
Now I am doubting my post about 2 letters and only 4 numbers. I know that they existed but being born in the mid '50s and seeing everyone's account of 2 letters and 5 numbers leads me to believe the 4 number versions were b4 my time. While I only remember them from hearing them over the radio, they were probably 6 digits after the letters. So far I see know one claiming they had to use the operator for all calls like on the Andy Griffith show LOL! My closest claim to that would be my Grandmother was a switchboard operator in the '20's.
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Post by hondo on Jan 4, 2023 19:01:23 GMT
Now I am doubting my post about 2 letters and only 4 numbers. I know that they existed but being born in the mid '50s and seeing everyone's account of 2 letters and 5 numbers leads me to believe the 4 number versions were b4 my time. While I only remember them from hearing them over the radio, they were probably 6 digits after the letters. So far I see know one claiming they had to use the operator for all calls like on the Andy Griffith show LOL! My closest claim to that would be my Grandmother was a switchboard operator in the '20's. Oh yea, as a kid I remember using the operator for all calls. The first phones I remember were using the operator. One at my grandmother's house, way out in the country. A big box on the wall with a receiver on a hook and a wire running into the box, a hand crank and a place to speak into. She would crank it a few times, the operator would say 'number please' and place the call. It was a party line and yes, grandma always listened in on others. The phones in town were more up to date. Some still had the tall ones, like on Mayberry, but most were like the old rotary phones without the dial. You simply picked up the receiver and the operator would say 'number please'. At that time there were only numbers, no letters involved. You could even ask the operator for the correct time.
I remember when the telephone company replaced all of the phones with the crank. They just piled the old ones in a big stack as junk on vacant land near the country school. I wish I had been wise enough to picked up a few.
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