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Originally Posted by TomW

I remember when we had a PARTY LINE where 4 families shared one phone line. Each family had a different ring pattern (Long, two shorts) if the call was for your house. When we wanted to make a hole in a board, we used a BRACE and BIT. Has anyone had any hand cranked ice cream lately? That was the ony way we got ice cream years ago.

My grandmother's phone number in rural Indiana was two longs and a short.

We recently tried to give a hand crank ice cream machine to Goodwill and they wouldn't take it.

My maternal grandfather had a pay phone in his house. He had five daughters.

We had a Kelvinator that had a quarter pay machine attached - you want cold you pay a quarter a day.