On the topic of party lines...I'm 35 years old, and I've never met another person my age who knows what a party line is. My grandparents built their current home in 1964, and they continued to have a party line into the mid-1980s. I remember being told to ignore the phone because it wasn't the "right ring."
My grandmother finally had her fill of a couple of old gossipin' women always tying up the line, and they changed over to a private line (no, she wasn't dealing with the Mendlebright sisters!). I remember that when they changed over, the phone company took the old rotary telephone because it was original phone company property. So maybe the issue withe the phones in Mayberry was that the local phone company didn't want to spring for new telephones. Of course, if the utilities were all managed together, the money probably went to paving around the gas works instead. Travis _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
