I remember when I was a kid we had a wall phone and our number was 2646. In the smaller towns they had a letter or word preceding the number such as my aunt had. It was Cutright 392..all the phones in town had a street name preceding the number and she lived on Cutright street. We could make local calls to ten neighbors without operator assistance. They were all party lines and since it was a rural area the men seldom used the phone accept for business because each local phone call cost a dime. It was the ladies who did all the gossiping but I don't recall any of them ever complaining about their feet falling asleep so I never did know what causes that. But it must have been in the late 50's or early 60's that the dial tone came in. I remember hearing a story where President Eisenhower never used the phone while he was President. But shortly after he finished his second term he picked up a reciever and asked someone what the buzzing sound was. They had to tell hi it was a dial tone....My grandmother had one of those candle stick phones and believe me you didn't talk on them like they did in Mayberry. You had to hold it right out to your mouth and talk directly into it or you were hard to hear.... I don't know who started this conversation but thanks for the memories...
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