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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheOLdGuy, post: 173317, member: 878&quot;]Greg, I do remember picking up the phone to make a call and hear someone else&#039;s conversation. But I didn&#039;t know who they were - we were two parties on one line. That was <b>1940s</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I do think a bit odd is the dates on the previous comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, when I mentioned the crank phone in existence in the 1950s I said &quot;friend.&quot; It was early 1950s and was actually my girlfriend baby sitting her little cousins. She had called me (long distance) and when we realized it was being charged to her aunt I told her to hang up and I would call her back. When I dialed the number the local operator in that town - or whatever she was called - refused to connect me because it was after midnight. I&#039;m sure I did not use any nasty words, but eventually convinced her to put the call through.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next morning the first thing she did was to call my future aunt-in-law and give her the full report on what went on. She probably had been listening to everything we said from the first minute. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><u><br /></u></p><p><u>NOW, here&#039;s where I&#039;m a bit lost</u>. <b>In 1960,</b> western PA and, it sounds like a lot of other places, had party lines.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>In <b>1961</b> I was married</u> to that beautiful lady who had babysat her cousins. We also had our first owned home built in that <u>very town</u> where her aunt lived. Population had grown to 3,600. When the house was <u>99% finished</u> we moved in on Labor Day weekend <b>1961</b>. Kinda in a rush because we had our son and daughter starting school the day after labor day. We also had a 3 year old son who would soon be joined by a third son born 6 days before Christmas, 1961.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had installed in our new home the regular - modern - phones which allowed us to&nbsp; call anywhere by just dialing. Often with a <b><font size="5">1</font></b> in front though. Yeah - 1961.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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