The year was 1940 ,in Chicago Ill.we had a real Sarah,although we did not really know her name, we had a candlestick phone and a square black box on the wall which had a coin slot in it. When we wanted to make a call,we would pick up the ear piece and the voice would say " operator, number please". we would then tell her the number we were trying to call , and the the operator would say "please deposit five cents",and then we would put a nickel or a slug into the coin slot on the box. She could tell by the sound of the ding ,how much was deposited. The slugs were nickel size and were purchased from the phone company. Once a month a man from the phone company would come to our house,he would have a very large ring of keys,may be a hundred. he would unlock the black box and empty the contents on our table and then proceed to count and wrap the coins in rolls,he was amazingly adept at it. When he was finished counting and rolling ,we would buy back the slugs from him and leave them on top of the black box so that you would have them handy for the next call. Our phone number was 0452 and later changed to "Armatige 0452". We also had a party line as privet lines were scarce and more expensive. Every time I see Andy's office phone the memories jump up so clear...But what is strange is that I can hardly remember what I had for breakfast today. God Bless All Lou in Florida
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