20 Things Party Lines
Doris Day and Rock Hudson made a few movies together including “Send Me No Flowers” which I had mentioned in my last post and “Pillow Talk” which is the segue into the topic of this post. 20 Things From The 1960s, Kids Today Will Never Understand! #16 mentions the party line which is not something that took place in our home but I did know of neighbors who had party lines. I don’t know why some neighbors had them and some didn’t. “Pillow Talk” gave me the impression that it was more common than not and yet I really didn’t know that many people who had them. In “Pillow Talk” the solution worked out by the characters was to make or accept phone calls within a half hour time. One could take the hour until half past while the other used the phone half past until the hour. I don’t know that either of our neighbors had worked out anything. I ...