From: "" Just Brits " Shop" <shop at justbrits.com>
> But WHEN..............
>
> << On 1/14/2012 12:19 PM, David Breneman wrote:
> We had a
20-party line and didn't get TouchTone
> until the early 90s. >>
>
> did you get a Private Line, Dave ?!?!?
My parents finally got a
private line in the late 70s when
someone new moved into the neighborhood who
left his phone
off the hook when he went to bed! (By then it was about a
six
party line) My mom was frequently on call for the local
blood bank and had to
drive to a pay phone to return pages.
I think my dad got a lawyer to send a
firmly worded letter
to the phone company and they gave my parents a private
line
within a couple weeks, and WITHOUT charging the per-mile
rate from the
switch.
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