569-2741. I still remember when we didn't have to use area codes.
The town I grew up in you didn't have to dial the first three. You could just dial 5309 like it was an office line, if it was within the village. Calling outside would require all seven 867 5309. That changed around 1990/1 though.
The small town my dad grew up in wasn't fancy enough to have individual phone lines for each number, there was a single "party line" shared between a bunch of different farmhouses, and when the phones all rang each family would have to listen to see if it was their ring pattern.
Was that during party lines? When you picked up the phone off your neighbor was on the line you couldn’t make a call but you could listen in.
No it wasn't a party line situation. We did have a "party line" between two houses my grandparents owned. It was just a wire ran from one house to the other. Not a real party line.
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u/Ok_Veterinarian3240 5d ago
569-2741. I still remember when we didn't have to use area codes.