[at-l] Old Phones

[Doug Mathews]

My grandmother told me that when they first got a phone in rural 
Missouri, they had to string their own line from the nearest neighbor 
with a phone.  She said if there was an emergency, the operator would 
ring all the phones at once and tell everyone what the problem was.

Of course she and her sister hid under a big bush when they saw there 
first airplane flyover thinking it was a giant bird. Her dad brought 
their first car home and when he got to the gate, he forgot how to 
stop it and she said he was hollering "WHOA" as he crashed through the gate.

Those pleasant times of the past, huh?

Doug

Mainframe GA-->ME 2002