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Someone mentioned party lines with the old telephone system. Before I was born, the telephone service provider approached my parents to put the telephone switchboard in their home. Growing up the room next to my parents bedroom was 'the office'. I was allowed to take calls before I was 10, but had to pass long distance calls over to someone older for a couple of years. I can remember being left to look after the switchboard on Sunday mornings when the rest of the family went to church. (Little heathen that I was. )
Last summer I saw an almost identical unit in the Alexander Graham Bell museum in Baddeck.
Best
Les
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Les
My train of thought has been replaced by a bumper car.
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