The earliest I remember our number was (Jackson)(JA2 1727, that changed to 522-1727 where it remained until my dad passed in 2017. I remember the older kind of phone in my grandma's house, but I can't say if it worked or not, as I wasn't allowed to use the phone at her house. I remember party lines, but I can't recall how many people shared our line. In our old house we only had one phone jack in the kitchen on the wall. Then we moved when I was about 3, and I remember it being such a big house there were three whole phone jacks!! One in the kitchen on the wall, one upstairs in the hallway on the wall, and one in my parents' bedroom where a fancy sleek phone sat on her nightstand. I thought we were rich then!! The phone in the kitchen had such a long cord that it reached allllllllll the way into my bedroom......barely, and it reached outside the back door too.
Then came touch tone phones, which made dialing super easy. And Fiber Optics....ooooh we were fancy then!!
Then there were phone plans with free long distance after 9pm, then after 7pm, along with friends and family plans that allowed you call a certain number of people long distance for free (this all came after I was grown and married).
Then came PC's and dialup internet....hello AOL and Compuserv. You've Got Mail.
And even then, I remember telephones were a luxury, and not a need. I remember when times were lean, we wouldn't have a phone until we caught up on everything else. Even today, my phone bill, and internet is paid after everything else. ...unfortunately we have reached the days where phones are considered needs and not luxuries to many people. Hard times are coming around and people are in for a real shocker, I fear. But I digress. ;-)
Then came touch tone phones, which made dialing super easy. And Fiber Optics....ooooh we were fancy then!!
Then there were phone plans with free long distance after 9pm, then after 7pm, along with friends and family plans that allowed you call a certain number of people long distance for free (this all came after I was grown and married).
Then came PC's and dialup internet....hello AOL and Compuserv. You've Got Mail.
And even then, I remember telephones were a luxury, and not a need. I remember when times were lean, we wouldn't have a phone until we caught up on everything else. Even today, my phone bill, and internet is paid after everything else. ...unfortunately we have reached the days where phones are considered needs and not luxuries to many people. Hard times are coming around and people are in for a real shocker, I fear. But I digress. ;-)
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