A lost art - but here's all you need to know, courtesy of Ma Bell, 1954:
Well, that was pretty clear. But wait - how would you convey all that in a silent film? This earlier version from 1927 gets the message across with some swell animation:
Just for fun, here's some modern kids confronted with a dial phone for the first time:
2 comments:
I'm old enough to remember "party lines." You would share your phone number with others.
It was years before my parents would break down and get touch tone phones. I think they had to.
We had a party line too when I was little - private lines were expensive.
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