Remembering Things Past

herodotus said:
And those alpha numeric exchanges are why phones had rotary dials and later buttons with the little numbers. Also, if I recall correctly until the the 70s or so your phone was actually owned by Bell Telephone and you rented it from them. Ah and who remembers the phonebook? Yellow for business, grey for residences, and blue for government
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Ma Bell… what a racket they had… renting the phones but then again many here rent modems and routers… SMH
 
sukie said:
Ma Bell… what a racket they had… renting the phones but then again many here rent modems and routers… SMH
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My mom's first job from the early 70s until about about 1990 was operator services for Ma Bell (Southwestern Bell around here and then they made operator services a part of AT&T. The pay was okay, but AT&T moved quickly to consolidate and they shut down that positiion. From what I understand she absolutely haaaaaaated that job, but she got a nice pension, they gave her a lump sum and she gave me 20,000 to close on my house.
 
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