https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineman%27s_handset
Still have mine.
On 11/10/2020 18:55:49, David J Brooks wrote:
We kept our rotary phone cause it will work in power outages were the
cordless panasonic will not.:-)
Dave
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:19 PM ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
That method was used often to let someone know you were safe to home,
arriving soon, etc.. sometimes one would use a fake name that parsed to
a message..
ann
On 11/10/2020 4:22 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Not nearly as exciting, but when I was a teen and I went someplace in
the evening, Mom would have me call collect for myself when I arrived
safely and she’d reject the call so that it wouldn’t cost anything.
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