As the "other Bill" said, yeah I can remember making those person to person
calls also.
Now as to taking the healey out for a ride. We took our BJ7 out yesterday to
check the overdrive
(had to replace the switch, which is probably the cheapest repair I ever
made to the healey). Went for a ride to Fort Desoto. The weather was upper
70's and flat out beautiful. Ok, people, it's great to live in
florida!!!!!!!!!!
Bill
BJ7
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>I'm suprised that in all this discussion of using no area codes and
>operator
>assisted calls, that no one mentioned the ever popular "party line" and
>usually when you had to make a call, the other party was on the line.
>Bill
>BJ7
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>If everyone who ever listened in on a party line were to suddenly turn into
>a bushel of soy beans we could feed the world. In my youth whenever we
>went anywhere on a trip we were always instructed to make a
>person-to-person call when we arrived in our destination. The correct
>person would answer and deny being the intended caller. Often you could
>hear the other person in the background, so you knew it was "the call".
>Not the first time Ma Bell got ripped off and certainly not the last.
>Power to the People, I guess.
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>Other Bill
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>Other BJ7 which is going out for a ride tomorrow. Me, daughter and
>granddaughter. I'll be driving since I no longer fit in the back seat.
>Hell, the front seat is a challenge. I can remember leaping into this
>car right over the driver's door. Ah, youth.
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