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...And speaking of telephones, was anyone here ever on a "party line?" It was even in the first line of the dialogue on the old Lum and Abner radio show. The phone rings twice (or whatever) and Abner (possibly) said, "Why, Lum, I believe that's our ring!" I also recall coming home from school one day, probably in 1962 or 1963 and my step-mother (my mother died in 1959) asked me if I noticed anything new in the living room. It turned out that the phone had been fitted with one of those new-fangled spiral cords instead of the plain, straight one it used to have. I never noticed it.....
I could be wrong, but the first time I think I learned about party lines was when I saw the Rock Hudson, Doris Day movie "Pillow Talk." In mid-state NJ, where I grew up, I don't believe party lines still existed by the late '60s.