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Old 06-17-2011, 02:40 AM   #11
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Wink It Wasn't always Easy...

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Originally Posted by joann721 View Post
when we are at the lake we dont want to communicate with anyone.... We have often joked how long it would take for somebody to come looking for us if we don't return home on Sunday -
We had mixed feelings about getting our new dial telephone in the 60s—which still remains handy—on the wall today.

Dialing a number takes a very long time: calling long-distance tested our endurance. How did we survive that agony—waiting for that dial to rotate back—just to rotate it again and again?
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