EugeneNine
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Ding Ding Ding
The number you have dialed is no longer a working number, you are a moron, please make a note of it.
The number you have dialed is no longer a working number, you are a moron, please make a note of it.
This is what a REAL operator looks like ...
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Knew some telephone operators back in those times as well and I have to admit that sometimes the voices did not meet up to the rest of the person?
But those were the days when you spoke to a real person that knew which end was up and they were sitting in "your" local phone office, not somewhere overseas!
These junk Jap / Chinese cell phones,if Western Electric was making them they would be indestructible,and the before mentioned could never measure up!
According to TV, them things were tough enough to kill somebody with!
We had a party line when I was growing up, you never really knew who might be listening to your conversations, and you had to listen for your specific ring. We would pick up the phone to make a call and hear others on the line. Kids can't relate to that today.
DeathGrip
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Just what kind of operator are you guys talking about?
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DWFAN
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When we bought this house in '99 the den had a rotary wall phone behind the bar. I picked it up and there was a dial tone. I got the biggest smile on my face and the wife says, What?? Gave her the phone and got the same smile back. Phone is still there and still works fine. Still remember my phone number when I was a kid. Family had it for over fifty years. LUdlow 35134.
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model70hunter
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I retired last fall, I was a telephone man for 43 years. Operators were usually nice folks, a few could liven up a party. But basically good ladies.
Lots of memories and crazy stories. It was never the operators one had to watch out for, some lonely ladies turned in trouble tickets just to get a man out to their house. I've heard stories of a few who answered the door au' natural.
Lots of memories and crazy stories. It was never the operators one had to watch out for, some lonely ladies turned in trouble tickets just to get a man out to their house. I've heard stories of a few who answered the door au' natural.
Our first phone number was 53.
Then they added more numbers.....
Remember when the first two numbers were listed as a word?
As in RIverside 9 55.. Or TUlip 2 68..
Gee, I miss bakelite......
We were ASpinwall-7
Gunsnwater
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Nancy Pelosi Madeleine Albright Janet Reno.
I'd overlook a few flaws for a sense of humor and can pay her way.
Not for Joan Rivers, no way no how.
Our first phone number was 53.
Then they added more numbers.....
Remember when the first two numbers were listed as a word?
As in RIverside 9 55.. Or TUlip 2 68..
Gee, I miss bakelite......
Curious as to how far back the 2 numbers were used.
As a kid in the 60's I remember using a party line and NAtional 1-38**. To this day I cannot pick up a handset without first checking for a dial tone.
williamlayton
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352-G.
Blessings
Blessings
I would like to make a collect call please.
Yep.
And a "1911 platform" was a raised structure that Teddy Roosevelt stood on for speechifying.
And a "1911 platform" was a raised structure that Teddy Roosevelt stood on for speechifying.
meaneyedcatz
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Our first phone number was 53.
Then they added more numbers.....
Remember when the first two numbers were listed as a word?
As in RIverside 9 55.. Or TUlip 2 68..
Gee, I miss bakelite......
I still remember our first phone number PR (prospect) 3-7978.
I have no clue what my latest cell number was.
Remember when the Beverly Hillbillies got a phone?
Jed; Think I'll call Mr. Drysdale.
Granny after Jed picks up receiver: SPIN THE WHEEL JED, SPIN THE WHEEL.
Right after the SNL skit with "Ernestine" aired with the famous quote "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company" , an un-named printer acquaintance produced a run of bumper stickers with the ubiquitous Ma Bell logo and the "We don't care. We don't have to." quote in appropriate telco blue on white.
Very good rumor has it that someone got into the lot with all those telco vans they drove in those days and put the official-looking bumper sticker on the back bumper of every one. Here was 50+ telco service vans driving around with their new "slogan". And a fun time was had by all...
Very good rumor has it that someone got into the lot with all those telco vans they drove in those days and put the official-looking bumper sticker on the back bumper of every one. Here was 50+ telco service vans driving around with their new "slogan". And a fun time was had by all...
LVSteve
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When I was a kid of about fourteen there was an operator on our local exchange who had the sexiest, sultriest voice I ever heard other than Lauren Bacall (RIP). I would pick up the phone half-praying she would be the one who answered.
Then one day she was pointed out to me as she left work. Alas, she was old to my callow eyes (maybe 60, which I now consider young stuff), spherical, and ugly enough to stop a sundial.
My dreams shattered, I drowned my sorrows in cheese-and-onion sandwiches and vowed to be a less salacious thinker.
Didn't last, of course.
In a previous job a guy called looking for me and he got the girl who worked at the other end of the building. I was tracked down and the call transferred to me. His first words were "And who was that sultry voiced vixen?" I let him down as gently as I could, explaining that the voice was courtesy of the tobacco company, Benson and Hedges, and that by no means did the body match his fantasies either. To this he sighed and said, "Oh well, I suppose we'll have to talk about work then."
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