Well into the 1980s, a call from Germany or Austria was difficult and quite expensive.
Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:21 PM Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
