----- Original Message ----- From: Randy McFarland To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 12:28 AM Subject: Dial Telephones
The subject of dial phones and party lines touches my heart. My mother was a telphone operator in the small town of Linton Indiana for many years. As a child I remember picking up the phone hoping to here my mother on the other end say number please. There was sometimes more than one operator on duty so I didn't always get her. I remember her telling me not to do that. But I know she liked it when I did. I haven't lived there for many years but this small town will always be my Mayberry and I go back there as often as I can. I was looking through an old 1959 yearbook and saw the number of the local dry cleaners thr phone number was 5. It was in the ealry 60s when automation put dials on our phones and closed our local telephone office forcing us to move to a larger town that still had operators. to this day Linton is my hometown my Mayberry. My name is Randy, but one close friend calls me Range. Not the open prairie, but a take off on what Barney called andy at times Ange. Thanks Range from Indiana _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
