Can anybody remember party lines and before dial tone?

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  1. Evil Roy

    Evil Roy In Flower

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    Is this the party to whom I am speaking?
     
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    Is this the party to whom I am speaking?.......

    My maternal grandmother was the busibody of the county. The phone was in t he dining room. After supper and dishes were done, everyone was banished to outside, front porch, or parlor, if the weather was foul. She listened for three or four hours a night. My fraternal grandparents didn't get electricity til 1962, the phone didn't come in til 1965 or so. Party line there until the Goobermint took the property and dammed the creek, flooded out!
     
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    FBG, that is a line that Lily Tomlin used in many of her phone operators skits many years ago.
     

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