Reply #33: Party lines [View All]

[skygazer]

And you had your own ring. And you'd pick up the phone to make a call and hear the neighbor's voice on it - she'd say, "Give me a few minutes, skygazer" and you knew you had at least a half an hour before you could call out. :eyes:

No screw-top bottles - you needed a bottle opener. The soda machines had the bottles lying flat behind a glass door and when you put the money in, you could pull one out and open it on the opener at the front of the machine. If you were sneaky, you could just open the bottles while they were still locked in and let them drain into a paper cup. :blush:

If you didn't have a stamp, you could put your letter in the box with 15 cents and the mailman would stamp it.

Tuesday night was dollar night at the movies in my hometown - imagine going to a movie for a buck? You can't rent a movie for that.