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Old 07-04-2013, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by DougB View Post
Never had one either. Although I do remember having a party line.
We had a party line until I was about 6; then my mom got tired of sharing the phone line. And for a family of 5 we had one rotary dial telephone in the kitchen until I went away to college in the late 1970's. There was no call waiting, no caller ID, no answering machine and no voice mail. God bless the person who invented caller ID; I won't have a phone without it.