Posted August 12, 200519 yr comment_32727 I just found this great site for pulp era telephone exchanges. PEnnsylvania6-5000 Here's old Ma Bell recommendations! Operator! give me the police!
August 13, 200519 yr comment_789973 Re: Telephones! Very cool...Thanx...I don't know what I'll use this for....but I'm glad I know it!
August 20, 200519 yr comment_795586 Re: Telephones! Interesting to think that private telephones were much less common in the Pulp era with local shops often having the only phone in the area, and being willing to take messages for people !
August 20, 200519 yr comment_795592 Re: Telephones! Interesting to think that private telephones were much less common in the Pulp era with local shops often having the only phone in the area' date=' and being willing to take messages for people ![/quote'] That's one of the images I always recall from old movies, the way someone would stroll into one of those wooden booths to take a call. Incidentally, I lived in upstate New York in the nineties and the situation was just like that, except it applied to fax machines. The local drugstore in our middle-of-nowhere town took incoming faxes for people without you having to wait around for them to arrive. One of the many advantages of living where everybody knows your face.
August 20, 200519 yr comment_795773 Re: Telephones! Did you ever give your fax number as Matador 8-7593?
August 21, 200519 yr comment_796076 Re: Telephones! Did you ever give your fax number as Matador 8-7593? Should I have?
August 21, 200519 yr comment_796137 Re: Telephones! Well, given the parallel you just drew between the "community fax" and the "community phone" of the old days, I think it would be the bee's knees.
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