She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[BYC910]

Anyone ever have a rotary dial phone on a party line? If you wanted the weather forecast, you called WE6-1212. The time was TI4-2525
Or milk delivered to the porch in glass bottles, that you had to shake up to get the cream on top to mix with the milk?

party line milk in bottle left on the front porch cheese and butter too. somewhere around here I have the milk basket and a couple of milk bottles. guess WV is right I.m a collector . I remember drinking milk from a bottle at school the lid peeled off. seems like a very long time ago .and that was in the late fifty's .

 

[Ravynscroft]

When we first moved to this house in '73 I called to have the phone hooked up. The lady asked me what type of phone we wanted. I told her we'd had what was called a Princess phone where we'd moved from, and we'd like the same thing here. She told me she was sorry, but Walkersville wasn't wired for push button phones yet. Smart-***** me asked her if we could get a rotary phone, or would we have to turn the crank & ask the operator to connect us. She failed to see the humor in that at all.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I forgot my 9/11 time... was working at a gas station on graveyard shift... lines went around several blocks for gas that whole night through... was living next to Cheyenne Mountain and NORAD at the time, so was awful chaos there...

Can't wait to see your duckies!! Have you seen a little web yet?

Edited cuz my phone submitted before I could type... :/

Sounds like a nice place to live

Have Not seen a baby web! Hardly saw movement tonight was only a quick peek, with all the work to b done...

Im off to bed though had to update! Gnite all!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Sounds like a nice place to live

Have Not seen a baby web! Hardly saw movement tonight was only a quick peek, with all the work to b done...

Im off to bed though had to update! Gnite all!

Actually, I couldn't stand living there... :/

You'll see a baby web soon! Sorry for the rough day, get some rest!

 

[kwhites634]

Y'all making me feel old! I'm heading up to bed & hope I wake up in the morning.
Seeya

 

[BYC910]

Y'all making me feel old! I'm heading up to bed & hope I wake up in the morning.
Seeya

I think your the new VINTAGE member now . so we'll be expecting stories .have a good sleep feeding time comes early .the young'uns sleep in on the weekends round here .

 

[BlackwoodHollow]

You win with Hank Williams.

Everyone wins with Hank--cept cheaters.

Hi everyone! Im hardly able to keep reading up! Managing by a hair, and cant reply to half of what i want

Everyones 911 stories! Wow!

My story is simple but i think unique to this group so ill tell u, i was only 12! I was suposed to be in school but had played hooky cuz my mom was easy to get over on. We heard it over the trucks radio, and i remmember my mom like totally freezing in horror as she told us it was No Accident, something bad is happening. I lived close to Camp Villary in Slidell, LA and it was on a scary high alert, because NASAs Lockhead Martin is also within 30 miles. My mom was bein a drama queen spouting off how she heard they were huge targets... School the next day was incredibly Chaotic. No one had class we were all glued to the tv screens, teachers were crying everywhere.

My story isn't really unique. I was a teen, at home alone, cleaning up. Couldn't believe what I was seeing when those steel beams disintegrated like that. My dad was in demolition my whole life and I had never seen a building that big taken down. It was horrifying.

To this day I can't bring myself to watch the footage. Get choked up just thinking about it.

Y'all making me feel old! I'm heading up to bed & hope I wake up in the morning.
Seeya

See you on the flipside!

I think your the new VINTAGE member now . so we'll be expecting stories .have a good sleep feeding time comes early .the young'uns sleep in on the weekends round here .

Gotta get one of them facy schmancy automatic coop doors so the old'uns can sleep in every once in a while.

 

[WalnutHill]

You and I are closer in age. Had a TA in the 70's, and also a Pantera. Had a sister in law that had the push button..she was younger than me, but had the cutest convertable with the push buttons.

The Pantera never really caught on. My grandparents' neighbor was an AMC exec and he brought home an AMX3 prototype for road tests, I had fun riding in it. I think they built 6 of them.

 

[WalnutHill]

Anyone ever have a rotary dial phone on a party line? If you wanted the weather forecast, you called WE6-1212. The time was TI4-2525
Or milk delivered to the porch in glass bottles, that you had to shake up to get the cream on top to mix with the milk?

I thought time was 5252?

And yes to rotary dial, party line, and 5 digit dialing.

 

[WalnutHill]

When we first moved to this house in '73 I called to have the phone hooked up. The lady asked me what type of phone we wanted. I told her we'd had what was called a Princess phone where we'd moved from, and we'd like the same thing here. She told me she was sorry, but Walkersville wasn't wired for push button phones yet. Smart-***** me asked her if we could get a rotary phone, or would we have to turn the crank & ask the operator to connect us. She failed to see the humor in that at all.

I have a Princess phone on my desk right now...right next to my SIP phone.