Terry,
Welcome to the Senior group. I remember when small towns had one phone and like you said, you just picked it up and an operator, usually working at her own home, asked you what number you wanted. I also remember when we put the computers in all of the screaming when we did away with the so called Farmer lines, 10 people on a line. The number of rings didn't amount to anything as every time a phone rang everyone on the line would grab theirs to listen in. We have some small towns scattered around up here that used those type lines only until we put the computers in and made everything private lines.
I remember telling a person once that you couldn't wire money because it got hung where the wires were attached to poles and such and they believed it.
Ron
