Moderator: jingle_jangle
Can't vouch for the squirrels in Dixieland, but you gotta shoot an awful lot of those tree rats up here in Kaunsaslaund to get even a mouthful.elreydlp wrote:Besides Paul-you gotta remember-I grew up in the South. Them squirrels is good eatin'!jingle_jangle wrote:Why on earth would you want to do that?
These guys are TIGHT!!!
I remember the letter/number combos. Ours was Fireside, which was just a fancy name and no relation to the city or neighborhood. She talked about having to dial those letters but if you were calling someone in the same exchange, just dialing the 5 numbers would work. Also, you used to be able to dial 61011 and hang up and it would ring back your own number. If you had an extension upstairs and wanted to talk to someone downstairs, you'd dial that, hang up, then time picking it up when someone downstairs answered, and you could talk.jingle_jangle wrote:I got a woody watching that.
I clearly remember those phones; I began making phone calls that same year (1954) and had no idea until now that that was the Year of the Dial. I always thought it was sometime in the late 1940s.
The exchange names were just like street names back then--presidents, geographical, neighborhood references, botanical and animal, and so on.
I lived in Humboldt Park back then and our exchange was HU-6 XXXX (for Humboldt). My parents had that number for 14 years. Then, in 1960, we moved to Logan Square, where it became COrnelia 7, later 267-XXXX. They had this number for 43 years!
I have trouble recalling their latest number. Fortunately it's in my iPhone's directory...
I leave it plugged in because with it on the line (and princess phones in 2 bedrooms) we don't lose the cheaper made phones when lightning strikes - better spike protection.
