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Body piercings, nose rings, tongue studs and assorted body modifications were only seen from far away lands through the pages of National Geographic Magazine.

 

:cornut: One couldn't dial long distance. You had to get the operator.

jason

 

Your not that old if you can still remember the long distance operator. The key word here of course is remember.:wink:

 

If you can remember when Long Distance calling was a "big thing" and only done on birthdays and holidays.

 

:cornut: The ear piece and the mouth piece were only connected by an electrical cord.(in a very small town in rural Texas. Buda ,Texas. Most people in town were at least distant cousins)

Jason

 

Zigzag Oregon had a central operator and three digit phone numbers into the late sixties.

Dave

 

:cornut: No sir, she was known as Nell Montague or operator and she was the only operator of the Buda Telephone Company(privately owned and she was my Aunt). We weren't quite as sophisicated as the city slickers back east in Virginia. The call usually went something like this:" CRANK..........Operator...............Yeah Nell let me hollar at Gerald(uncle Gerald the grocer)...............He's(Nell's son) at the depot picking up the mail from the KATY(MKT RR Line) and the he's bringing my lunch from Molly(my grandmother who operated the town cafe)after that........... you wanna hollar at Mary,she's at the store(Aunt Mary, Geralds wife)..............okay I'll put you through. And this was in the 1950s. I remember being told about one call that people today would never believe(1948). The Post Mistress(appointed through the good graces of Senator Lyndon Johnson) cranks the phone..............Operator..........Nell put me through to Lyndon out at the ranch............Lyndon this Betty at the Buda Post office and Molly Montague's son Jason is in the Air Force(just be came the Air Force from the Army Air Force) and is having trouble getting his Scottish wife into the states from England. Thank ya Lyndon..........I'll tell er...............Molly Lyndon says that your daughter in law will be on the next boat.(and she was).

Jason

 

Well except for Hurricane Agnes in 1972... That one hit us here in PA pretty hard. I'm not sure if I am older than dirt but I think that makes me older than Dave.

 

As an old friend used to say, "only if you eat regular".

This could become another thread.

 

My father bought a MG 1100 Sports Sedan in 1965, he left it at a garage to put snow tires put on it , when he came back to pick it up the tires were on the REAR.:wink:

 

Don, my first car was an MGA, the first winter I had it I had ear aches so bad I went to an ENT, could not figure what was wrong with my ear. I sold the car and my ear aches went away. Side curtains just may leak a SMALL amount of air.:nonod:

 

Twister

 

Whoops..wrong thread. I go back to sleep now.

 

You mean polyvinyl acetate mixed with acetone could harm me?

I had my dad bring home cases of Super Elastic Bubble Plastic for after school fun with friends.

 

I'm definitely older than dirt.


When Moses parted the red sea, I was fishing on the opposite bank.

 

yeah, but they make THE best coffee!

 

Having to explain to well-meaning friends that no, your new radial tires did not need air...

 

"Disco sucks" bumper stickers

 

Dimes, Quarters(2 Bits), Half Dollars(4 Bits), and Dollars(8 Bits) were real Silver

 

Pulling the vacuum tubes out of the TV, and taking the tubes down to the grocery store where there was a tester. Once the faulty tube was isolated, a replacement would be in the cabinet below.

Cheers,

Ken