Am 10.11.20 um 16:52 schrieb Paul Sorenson:
On November 10, 1951 the first customer-dialed long distance phone call was made. Prior to that, you had to contact a long distance operator to place those calls.
Around 1968, we were on holiday in Yugoslavia and my uncle sent a telegram that he had found a better flat for us (something you had to wait years for). My father spent 3 whole days at the post office before the call to my uncle in Cologne was put through. By 1970 you still had to go through the German "Fernamt" for a call to the South of France. Not to mention that it cost the skin off your buttocks, as the French say. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
